line shot

Example Sentences

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One example: a 1975 Tommy Harper line shot toward the left-field foul pole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Olson doubled in a run before scoring on Murphy’s line shot to the left-field bleachers that made it 4-0.

From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Manny Machado tied the game at 1 with a line shot to left off Anibal Sánchez with two outs in the fourth, his 22nd.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022

“Because I think the first time I touched the ball I caught it in the corner and toed behind the line, shot it and made it.”

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

But her oblivion had been penetrated by an unexpected line, shot like a poisoned arrow from the sober text:— Breast of his mother should pierce with a wound sempiternal, unhealing.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)