bat around

Example Sentences

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The Rams had dropped to 4-5 when Arteta booked a last-minute visit to California and sat down with McVay to bat around wisdom on responding to adversity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

As you bat around innocuous topics like the weather, the latest football score or that TV show’s finale, you gauge how the person responds.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

“There are a lot of people here you can gut check with and bat around ideas,” Psaki said in an interview on her last day in the White House.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2022

He was clearly expecting someone with a name like Horatio Farnsworth III, a Harvard man who would bat around the finer points of the North Atlantic alliance over highballs on Air Force One.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2018

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