Examples of fly ball in a Sentence
He hit a long fly ball to left field.
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As a Boston native, Stone’s accent is thicker than chowdah, bless her, with a laugh that lilts like a fly ball onto Lansdowne Street.
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026
Mack assigned a run value to every fly ball hit in Kauffman, then layered on the team’s current roster of hitters and pitchers, its opponents, the wind patterns and even the stadium’s altitude.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 18 Jan. 2026
The Royals didn’t arrive here on a whim, nor to appease the complaints of the hitters who have more than a time or two rushed to their phones after a game to study their own launch angles and exit velocities, trying to compute how in the world a fly ball didn’t leave the yard.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2026
The system will look at the fact that these players play only half their games at home, that only two parts of the park are affected, and that only fly balls to those two parts of the park can potentially turn into homers.
—Eno Sarris, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026
Mack assigned a run value to every fly ball hit in Kauffman, then layered on the team’s current roster of hitters and pitchers, its opponents, the wind patterns and even the stadium’s altitude.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 18 Jan. 2026
The Royals didn’t arrive here on a whim, nor to appease the complaints of the hitters who have more than a time or two rushed to their phones after a game to study their own launch angles and exit velocities, trying to compute how in the world a fly ball didn’t leave the yard.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2026
The system will look at the fact that these players play only half their games at home, that only two parts of the park are affected, and that only fly balls to those two parts of the park can potentially turn into homers.
—Eno Sarris, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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“Fly ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fly%20ball. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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