bathos
Example Sentences
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You were a batboy for the Dodgers long before you were their first baseman — an eight-time All-Star, a most valuable player, a World Series champion.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
But he realized that a player who was no bigger than a batboy wouldn’t have much of a career.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
Fedde said he felt lightheaded, and he drank from a Gatorade cup brought out by a batboy before continuing to pitch.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2022
Rogers threw the ball to the visitors’ dugout, but plate umpire Ángel Hernández motioned for the Nationals’ batboy to throw it to the Reds’ dugout.
From Fox News • Sep. 26, 2021
Everybody connected with the Philly team but the batboy got a hit and from the way them guys run around the bases it looked more like a six-day race than a ball game!
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
Vocabulary lists containing bathos
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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