ball game
Example Sentences
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The removal of the flesh-and-blood element in something so human as a ball game will be pitched as a great stride forward, but it’s actually a major loss.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
Selling homes is a whole different ball game, and you have to bring something to the table.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Because I think if we fall short of that, that’s the end of the ball game.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2025
Instead, a half-inning later, the Marlins made it a brand new ball game.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
One of the girls who had been playing a kind of ball game to keep warm—the same game as Nausicaa was playing when Ulysses arrived—came running back to Elaine from the shrubbery by the well.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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