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Examples of fly ball in a Sentence
He hit a long fly ball to left field.
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Mookie Betts opened the bottom of the first with a 354-foot fly ball that carried over the short wall in left field for his ninth home run of the season and first in 50 at-bats dating back to May 17.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
Nick Loftin then lifted a fly ball deep enough to right field for a game-winning sacrifice fly, his first career walk-off RBI.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2024
In Sunday’s winner-take-all game, the game was scoreless in the fifth inning when Kyra Chen caught a fly ball in left field and threw out an LSU runner tagging from third.
—Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
Ryan Mountcastle hit a high fly ball down the left field line, but with Reds’ Spencer Steer shaded to left-center field, the ball dropped inside the foul line.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 5 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined above
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“Fly ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fly%20ball. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.
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