Ball in a sentence as a noun

We got knocked out cold in dodge ball.

There's no explanation as to why the canon ball missed.

We're all on this crazy spinning ball together.

As a former banker with 18 years experience, this article is 100% on the ball.

Somebody needs to light a fire under Congress's or the White House's seat to get the ball rolling.

We knew Microsoft was coming, because Netscape had rejected a low-ball offer from them in late '94.

Honestly, facebook, you're totally dropping the ball on oauth here.

If you or anyone else drops the ball the angry customer is right there, including the angry wait staff and angry team mates.

You need to model the signal path from the die through the interconnect, BGA ball, land and via stack, trace and then back up the chain into the memory chip.

Ball in a sentence as a verb

But even if that's the case, AirBnB has dropped the ball in pissing her off so much that she has to continue to make an effort to paint AirBnB in a negative light.

Judge Leon's ruling is a good step, but I'm disappointed and ashamed that the first president I cast a ballot towards is stonewalling on such an important issue.

Now I spent a bit of time evaluating that since it had never been the case in my career, up to that point, where I was unable to move the ball forward and I really wanted to understand that.

The crucial resource needed to repack your wheel bearing balls isn't the steel to make the balls or the dead cow to grease them with; it's the knowledge about which balls are the right size, and which ones are already subtly cracked.

Perhaps the way I write my e-mails is such that kicking the ball back to them is better for me, whereas Rob's style means a different strategy works better than him.* Something changed about how people read e-mails in between my experiment and Rob's article.

That was a little different they filed the TM in the wrong category and I claimed defense of "descriptive use" how else would a blood themed beverage be described?However, the Candy Crush Saga creators are even further behind the 8-ball on the TM "Candy" vis-a-vis video games.

Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!

My dropbox still has 30 PDFs for letters I sent to the 3 CRAs, several banks, and a few debt collection companies disputing the information on my report and taking polite professional notice that there was an easy way out of this predicament for them but that if they weren't willing to play ball on that I was well aware of the mechanics of the hard way.

Ball definitions

noun

round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket"

noun

a solid projectile that is shot by a musket; "they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball"

noun

an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire"

See also: globe

noun

the people assembled at a lavish formal dance; "the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded"

noun

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

See also: testis testicle orchis ballock bollock

noun

a spherical object used as a plaything; "he played with his rubber ball in the bathtub"

noun

United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)

See also: Ball

noun

a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

See also: clod glob lump clump chunk

noun

a lavish dance requiring formal attire

See also: formal

noun

a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass; "the ball at the base of the thumb"; "he stood on the balls of his feet"

noun

the game of baseball

noun

a pitch that is not in the strike zone; "he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him"

verb

form into a ball by winding or rolling; "ball wool"