Examples of line drive in a Sentence
He hit a hard line drive to the shortstop.
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Jake Rogers hit a line drive to short stop – in front of Spencer Torkelson.
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Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Nor can Cora press a button that’ll help his outfielders — such as, oh, Jarren Duran — get a better read and take a better route to a line drive with two out and the tying run on second.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Two batters later, Kemp belted a two-run shot into the left-center field seats and then Sosa’s line drive over the wall in left made it 11-1.
—Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Starting for the first time in three weeks and for the first time in left field in nearly two months, Johnson laid out to catch a sinking, tailing line drive by Christian Yelich for the first out of the ninth inning.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
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Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Nor can Cora press a button that’ll help his outfielders — such as, oh, Jarren Duran — get a better read and take a better route to a line drive with two out and the tying run on second.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Two batters later, Kemp belted a two-run shot into the left-center field seats and then Sosa’s line drive over the wall in left made it 11-1.
—Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Starting for the first time in three weeks and for the first time in left field in nearly two months, Johnson laid out to catch a sinking, tailing line drive by Christian Yelich for the first out of the ninth inning.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Line drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/line%20drive. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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