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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The younger Thompson is a veteran of seven major league seasons, who has seen 1,058 plate appearances for five different clubs.
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Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Now, Seattle needs just one more win to erase its unwanted record of being the only active major league franchise never to make it to the Fall Classic.
—Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
That lack of consistency just isn’t major league.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
The law, which removed national origin quotas established in the 1920s, greatly impacted who could immigrate to the U.S.
In 1974: Frank Robinson was hired by the Cleveland Indians as baseball’s first Black major league manager.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Now, Seattle needs just one more win to erase its unwanted record of being the only active major league franchise never to make it to the Fall Classic.
—Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
That lack of consistency just isn’t major league.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
The law, which removed national origin quotas established in the 1920s, greatly impacted who could immigrate to the U.S.
In 1974: Frank Robinson was hired by the Cleveland Indians as baseball’s first Black major league manager.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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 26 Oct. 2025.
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