line shot

Example Sentences

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One example: a 1975 Tommy Harper line shot toward the left-field foul pole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

“Because I think the first time I touched the ball I caught it in the corner and toed behind the line, shot it and made it.”

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Higashioka, who’s from Huntington Beach in Orange County, hit a line shot into the seats in left leading off the fifth.

From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2020

They were kept in position by a laser line shot out by a pace car driving fifteen metres in front of them the whole way.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2019

Then over the line shot the skaters, Dick and Larry side by side and laughing merrily.

From The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall by Stratemeyer, Edward