bat around
Example Sentences
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Judge brought his hands in, whipped his bat around and somehow connected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Scrawled placards mark the conference table at the Kyiv Independent, where nearly a year into the defining story of their lifetimes, staffers bat around news developments large and small.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
“There are a lot of people here you can gut check with and bat around ideas,” Psaki said in an interview on her last day in the White House.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
He was clearly expecting someone with a name like Horatio Farnsworth III, a Harvard man who would bat around the finer points of the North Atlantic alliance over highballs on Air Force One.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2018
A few neighborhood friends and I used to bat around the birdie for fun after school.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
