have a ball

Example Sentences

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No matter what or where you're drinking, though, I hope you have a ball.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2023

"For Madeleine every Christmas we had to have a ball under the Christmas tree and every year she had a brand new pair of boots," said her mother.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023

If anyone can unify, meet the challenge of a natural disaster and have a ball while doing it, it’s burners.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023

All three actors clearly have a ball biting the hand that feeds them, and their fun is infectious.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

“This room. We used to have a ball in here, exposing our minds and souls, composing anti-Talc manifestos. I guess that fraud is still hanging around that school.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole