ball girl

noun

: a female attendant who retrieves balls for players or officials (as in a tennis match or a baseball or basketball game)

Examples of ball girl in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The landscape would radically shift again in 1977 when ball girls were introduced to the tournament. —

Jon Haworth, ABC News, 12 July 2024 Most interestingly, Smullen’s suspicion of Irina was engineered by a ball girl, Ashlee (Aubrey Matalon), whose eye for scams helped her spot Cliff surreptitiously placing the fateful towel on Yoyo’s side of the court. —

Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024 An 11th grade shooting guard on Benjamin Franklin’s varsity boys basketball team, Corey Singletary will join the group of ball girls and boys at the CIAA Tournament for his second year in a row. —

Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024 In Oakland, Finley was the first to hire ball girls, but was unsuccessful in getting MLB to adopt orange baseballs. —

Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ball girl

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