line shot

Example Sentences

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One example: a 1975 Tommy Harper line shot toward the left-field foul pole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

“Because I think the first time I touched the ball I caught it in the corner and toed behind the line, shot it and made it.”

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Higashioka, who’s from Huntington Beach in Orange County, hit a line shot into the seats in left leading off the fifth.

From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2020

They were kept in position by a laser line shot out by a pace car driving fifteen metres in front of them the whole way.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2019

Nothing would ever fetch him but a line shot, and then as like as not he would split the bullet—the worst material for duelling purposes that could be imagined.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark