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Have a family badminton tournament or use the net to play volleyball with a beach ball.—Parents, 11 June 2026 Here — with stainless-steel kegs nearby and bartenders pouring pilsners and pale ales under market lights and beach balls — wrestlers launch off the top rope in raucous displays of acrobatics.—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026 Perhaps dreaming of warmer weather, multiple House lawmakers were seen at their desks Wednesday inflating beach balls patterned with the Iowa state flag.—Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 19 Mar. 2026 Encased in inflatable shock absorbers, the sphere bounced across the lunar surface like a beach ball, eventually settling and unfolding four petal-like panels to stabilize itself.—Ilya Ferapontov, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for beach ball