bate

Example Sentences

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Al alinear a Ohtani como titular, los Dodgers se asegurarían de no perder su bate durante el resto del partido, gracias a las reglas bidireccionales de la MLB.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

Please roll your drums, bate your breaths and hook your tenters—these are the 2017-’18 PGA Tour “Mid-Season” Awards.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 5, 2018

Which is why, for this, I would not bate my breath.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2015

As “Mr Dooley,” the comic, fictional creation of Finley Peter Dunne, wryly observed: “There’s wan thing about th’ Irish iv this town…they give picnics that does bate all.

From Time • Mar. 17, 2015

If a falcon is hooded she will not bate, that is, she won’t fly off your fist and hang head down by her jesses, beating her wings and hurting herself.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George