bush-league

Example Sentences

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Next they want to tear down our beloved two-mile superspeedway and replace it with a bush-league half-mile track.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2021

What he’s giving them in return is a strange, bush-league, pull-it-out-of-your-ear, always-indulge-your-emotions campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 4, 2016

In his incarnation in later years as a fledging bush-league baseball player, he adopted the sobriquet Randy because he felt it created the illusion that he could run faster.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2015

But we’ve seen enough brooding bush-league Walter Whites in cable antihero dramas that that’s a good thing.

From Time • Jan. 29, 2015

And he had not forgotten a good turn Blume had done him back in his bush-league days.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand