BAT in a Sentence

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40 example sentences for BAT, such as:

1. If he couldn't bowl, he could bat.
2. Not a single bat can resist the dawn.
3. He batted the ball high into the air.
4. He batted the idea around in his head.
5. The cat batted the balloon with its paws.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bat
 n.  a specially shaped piece of wood used for hitting the ball in some games
 n.  a small animal like a mouse with wings that flies at night
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  I went to the window and looked out, but could see nothing, except a big bat, which had evidently been buffeting its wings against the window.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  But the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking there came a big bat and sat on the window-sill.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  The Count, even if he takes the form of a bat, cannot cross the running water of his own volition, and so cannot leave the ship.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  This is evident; for had he power to move himself as he wished he could go either as man, or wolf, or bat, or in some other way.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Not a single bat can resist the dawn.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
7  There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
8  A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
9  He put his hoop away, and his bat; there was no joy in them any more.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  He seized Becky's hand and hurried her into the first corridor that offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky's light out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  But that weakness that's in our hearts can lick us in the time it takes to bat your eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  I've gone through life like a bat out of hell, never caring what I did, because nothing ever mattered to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger--with a cricket bat in his hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  If he couldn't bowl, he could bat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
15  And from here and from there came the sounds of the cricket bats through the soft grey air.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  I have to bat out a term paper before class.
2  Australia, put in to bat, made a cautious start.
3  There was a bat haven saved in church roof.
4  Swooping in for the hunt, the long-eared bat takes on the deadly deathstalker scorpion on foot;this scorpion's venom is so strong it is capable of killing a human.
5  In the fading light we saw bats flitting around/about in the garden.
6  Dogs, cats, foxes and bats can all carry rabies.
7  As dusk fell, bats began to fly between the trees.
8  The strong, elastic wood of this tree, used for furniture, tool handles, and sporting goods such as baseball bats.
9  There were plenty of things to question, but I never batted a lash at that.
10  He batted the idea around in his head.
11  The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
12  He batted the ball high into the air.