BALL in a Sentence

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334 example sentences for BALL, such as:

1. She has a lot on the ball.
2. He tossed the ball to Anna.
3. We're going to the ball game.
4. His favorite toy is a rubber ball.
5. She unwound the wool from the ball.

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 Meanings and Examples of BALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ball
 n.  a round or roundish body or mass
 n.  round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Thereafter driving through broad streets sparsely lighted with lanterns, he arrived at the Governor's residence to find it illuminated as for a ball.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  Once more they assumed a careworn expression, and he even wiped his face with his handkerchief, then rolled it into a ball, and rubbed it to and fro against his upper lip.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  Shortly afterwards there arrived a card of invitation to the Governor's ball already referred to.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  With that went the easy bow of a military man and the agile backward movement of an india-rubber ball.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
5  Pavel Petrovitch met her at a ball, danced a mazurka with her, in the course of which she did not utter a single rational word, and fell passionately in love with her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  He invited Kirsanov and Bazarov to his ball, and within a few minutes invited them a second time, regarding them as brothers, and calling them Kisarov.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  A few days later the ball at the Governor's took place.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  She stayed later than any one at the ball, and at four o'clock in the morning she was dancing a polka-mazurka with Sitnikov in the Parisian style.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  The bone's not touched,' he muttered through his teeth; 'the ball didn't go deep; one muscle, vastus externus, grazed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  He very calmly stepped over me, while I flew on one side like a ball.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
12  That is a mirage, cheap mirage, revolting, romantic and fantastical--that's another ball on Lake Como.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
13  For instance, not long ago a lieutenant writes to a friend describing a ball very wittily.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
14  Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
15  "They say the ball will be very good," replied the princess, drawing up her downy little lip.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
16  He volleyed the ball spectacularly into the far corner of the net.
17  He threw the ball to me, but I missed it and it landed on the ground.
18  My friend threw the ball back over the fence.
19  She bounced the ball against the wall.
20  The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
21  His favorite toy is a rubber ball.
22  She unwound the wool from the ball.
23  The dog retrieved the ball from the water.
24  He smote the ball into the grandstand.
25  He tossed the ball to Anna.
26  The ball bounced high and she missed it.
27  The centre forward headed the ball into goal.
28  We're going to the ball game.
29  The ball bounced off the wall and he caught it.
30  She has a lot on the ball.