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

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

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