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
Nothing would ever fetch him but a line shot, and then as like as not he would split the bullet—the worst material for duelling purposes that could be imagined.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain
