major league
noun
1
: a league of highest classification in U.S. professional baseball
broadly
: a league of major importance in any of various sports
2
major leaguer
noun
Examples of major league in a Sentence
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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Tanner Murray hit his first major league home run, Colson Montgomery also connected and the Chicago White Sox outlasted the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Sunday after the first pitch was pushed back 3 hours because of rain.
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CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
He was called up more than two years later, making his major league debut in September 1973.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2026
The last-place Giants, who came in with a major league-low five homers, just missed a potential third long ball when Taylor Ward made a leaping grab at the left-field wall to rob Harrison Bader in the eighth.
—ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
The left-hander signed a minor league contract with the Giants last July after being designated for assignment by the Detroit Tigers and experienced his first extended run of being on a major league roster.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
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CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
He was called up more than two years later, making his major league debut in September 1973.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2026
The last-place Giants, who came in with a major league-low five homers, just missed a potential third long ball when Taylor Ward made a leaping grab at the left-field wall to rob Harrison Bader in the eighth.
—ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
The left-hander signed a minor league contract with the Giants last July after being designated for assignment by the Detroit Tigers and experienced his first extended run of being on a major league roster.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for major league
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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