How to Use batting in a Sentence

batting

noun

• Would the Angels dare to move him down in the batting order?
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• Lay one of the 25-inch strips along the edge of the cotton batting with the right side visible.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• It’s almost made batting practice kind of a thing of the past.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• Lane played for Team USA over the summer, batting cleanup.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Phillies were strikeout- and home run-heavy in the lineup and any one of them can bring contact to the batting order.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 7 Nov. 2022
• Blanket rolls of batting cost $0.10 to $1 per square foot.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 31 May 2023
• The difference in the game, however, turned out to be the top of the Millersville batting order.
  — Brett Friedlander, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2023
• Earlier in the day, Moore took batting practice with the team.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
• Get there early and watch the Rangers take batting practice.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
• Want to take batting practice while having a couple cold ones with the boys?
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
• Aubrey Ultsch is back in the ninth spot in Antioch’s batting order, and that’s fine with her.
  — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
• Betts hit the ball hard, batting .316 in Boston’s farm system.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Khalil Greene stopped taking batting practice on the field.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
• When Ohtani emerged from the dugout to take batting practice before the game, the fans ringing the field raised their phones to record his presence.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• He is scheduled to throw live batting practice for the first time on Tuesday.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• The deal would keep the three-time batting champion in a Houston uniform through 2024.
  — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• As the Red Sox took batting practice over the weekend, a member of the Diamondbacks took stock of the team.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• The team had righty and lefty pitchers going at the same time during batting practice.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2022
• Hicks took batting practice and ran sprints on the field before Friday’s game.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2023
• The group descended to the field during batting practice.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Even a red hat and some cotton batting for a beard can suggest Santa or one of his helpers.
  — Cindy Bruecks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
• Manager Buck Showalter often sees him in the batting cages late at night and has to tell him to go home to Chelsea.
  — Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 15 Dec. 2022
• The next day, Trimper watched Peña take batting practice and wasn’t overly impressed.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Choose a fabric with bright circles in the pattern or the color, and layer it with fusible batting.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
• To make: Start by wrapping a handkerchief or piece of fabric around a pouf of batting.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
• Ohtani, whose 32 home runs lead the majors, has taken batting practice on the field only three times this year.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• This wasn’t simple batting practice -- coaches stood 30 feet away and winged it in hard.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2023
• During the show, the white-haired Rubenstein — wearing khakis, a blue shirt and blazer — strides to home plate and assumes his batting stance.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
• For about an hour, father would throw son batting practice.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Like going to the locker room, going on to the field for batting practice, meeting some of the other players.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024