bat around

Example Sentences

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Judge brought his hands in, whipped his bat around and somehow connected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Paul Katool, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Transportation, is part of a group of employees who bat around ideas every month for funny highway signs, riffing on movies, pop music and upcoming holidays.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Kirchoff didn’t allow Maine’s 14-player order to bat around a second time, retiring all except one, a hit allowed in the third inning.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023

Scrawled placards mark the conference table at the Kyiv Independent, where nearly a year into the defining story of their lifetimes, staffers bat around news developments large and small.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2023

A few neighborhood friends and I used to bat around the birdie for fun after school.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins