How to Use dinger in a Sentence

dinger

noun
  • The Phillies socked some dingers.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Volpe now has four hits this season; each one has been a dinger.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The dinger was his 40th of the season.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Just tell him to give up pitching and go hit dingers already.
    Keith Law, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
  • Every dinger counts just a little more from here on out.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • His power in that park in the summer could lead to a lot of dingers.
    Owen Poindexter, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • Judge then blasted his third dinger of the day, a two-run jack, in the fourth inning.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
  • But his connection to the city runs deeper than dingers and rings.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 June 2019
  • Bregman garnished his seventh dinger of the year with a bat flip and a skip.
    Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, the Bombers’ bats tried to climb out of their hole with a few dingers of their own.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • Might not be a bad time to put up an unprecedented third game of nine-plus dingers.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The dinger gave the Yankees a 2-1 edge, their first lead in four days.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
  • Peña's dinger tied the game at three, once again quieting the home crowd in the Bronx.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Spencer Strider and Austin Cox were tagged for three dingers each.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, the Bronx Bombers still hit a ton of dingers, but their offense is much more than that.
    Matt Martell, SI.com, 21 July 2019
  • The big first baseman hit a two-run homer in the first inning and a three-run dinger in the third, both with two outs.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
  • Palka’s first dinger, a two-run moonshot to center field, put the Sox on the board.
    Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 4 July 2018
  • That inning would've been impressive, but the dingers kept coming.
    Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The eighth inning dinger put the Angels out in front 10-8 at the time.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • There was some confusion on the play, but McNeil made up for it with his dinger.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
  • For now, Stanton is hoping that Tuesday’s dinger is a sign of things to come.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
  • Santana fared better than Thome, hitting 13 dingers in the first round.
    chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2019
  • The dingers marked Judge’s 11th of the season and Rice’s 10th.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • With the sale, Freeman’s dinger is now the third-highest-grossing home-run ball to be auctioned.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Big Herman Long, all 5 feet and 8 inches of him, lead the way with six dingers.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 6 May 2026
  • Susac’s solo shot over the bullpen in left in the third was almost identical to his subsequent dinger in the ninth.
    Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2022
  • Each dinger came off a low four-seam fastball from Weathers, whose velo was down a few ticks on Tuesday.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Stewart follows it up with a mammoth dinger to straightaway centerfield.
    Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Of course, pulling these pieces off isn't as easy as packing a dinger and growing a Goose Gossage mustache.
    Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • And in the grand scheme of things, 500 long balls over a dozen years isn’t a lot — just 1% of all dingers over that time period.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023

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