be a ball
Example Sentences
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Smith, who grew up in Camarillo, was a student-manager at San Diego State in 1990 when he got the call to be a ball boy at Chargers games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
While Norton never got to be a ball boy on Centre, he did get on Court One - and possibly even better, he played on it.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
“We strengthen existing evidence for the existence of the innermost inner core, which should be a ball the size of about half of the inner core.”
From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2023
“It might be a ball, two, a cup, even as close as 7, 8 feet. It’s really tricky.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
In her hands she held a flickering light, which wasn’t a lantern or a candle but seemed to be a ball of raw flame, attended by nothing more than her bare skin.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
