fly ball

noun

Examples of fly ball in a Sentence

He hit a long fly ball to left field.
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The overall and grounder marks are over two standard deviations above league average, the fly ball mark is over one above. Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Minnetonka attempted to score a runner from third off a fly ball. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 June 2025 Wunsch forced a routine fly ball to center field and fell to his knees after Brayden Edwards caught it to clinched South Windsor’s first state championship since 1993. Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025 Ron Fairly followed with a fly ball to Willie Mays in shallow center that normally would have kept the deadlock intact. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for fly ball

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of fly ball was in 1865

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“Fly ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fly%20ball. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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