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    bat


    bats


    batted


    batting


    1. Liam picked up the putter, felt its weight in his hand, swung it a few times like a cricket bat


    2. Aunt Billie was an interesting old bat


    3. off the bat, six months and


    4. Give the old bat


    5. He touched my right knee-cap with the end of his baseball bat


    6. He raised the bat and drew back behind his shoulder, aiming at my right kneecap


    7. CRAACK! The ball flew off the bat into shallow left field for a single


    8. I felt rather than heard the bat being swung with great power


    9. I stained to hear the bat striking the ball


    10. What a relief! I had stuck him out and the game was still tied and we were coming to bat

    11. I was due to come up fifth, so it didn’t look like I would have a chance to bat; at least not in this inning


    12. Here it comes; the wind –up, the pitch, sure enough a fastball, straight at Stewey’s head! Stewey ducked but forgot to drop his bat


    13. The ball hit the bat and trickled out in front of the plate


    14. Two on, two out, bottom of the sixth and it was my turn to bat!


    15. After that the rest of the damage didn't take too long and nothing was quite as shocking as seeing the Bechstein shattered down the middle by a tattooed gorilla with a baseball bat


    16. A goon in my house smashing things with a baseball bat


    17. His henchman Rafa wasn't there but I recognized baseball bat wielding henchman number two


    18. The question was though, would the heavy come back with his boss, with a baseball bat, or with both? Either way it wouldn't be easy


    19. He tried to bat her hand away, but he wasn’t fast enough


    20. Assume the first stage of the posture which by now will be familiar to you, bat this time bend your left leg until your heel touches your right buttock

    21. He turned to nie and asked for a bat, I went to


    22. leaned his entire weight on the bat while standing


    23. 'I want the bat,


    24. The bat cost us a hundred and sixty,


    25. moved his bat in a smooth movement and connected


    26. Ali's bat had not hit the ball, but his pride


    27. hand and his cricket bat in the other


    28. owned a large bat factory in Kashmir


    29. He opened the wooden trunk and took out a bat wrapped in plastic


    30. Ish examined the bat

    31. Paras to bat, Ali to field,' Ish shouted after three overs


    32. Disappointed, he threw the bat on| the crease


    33. I know he wants to bat,' Paras said and gave Ali the bat


    34. Ali took the bat, walked to the crease without looking up


    35. But Laxman connected with the ball and bat


    36. to come back and bat


    37. The bat deflected


    38. Ish picked up a bat


    39. Ish dropped the bat on the


    40. Ish blocked him with his bat

    41. Ish struck the bat on the man's


    42. Omi had crushed the toes of the fourth man with the bat


    43. Ali lifted a bat from the floor


    44. Ali winced as his right wrist hurt when he lifted the bat


    45. laughed as Ali held up his bat


    46. 'Oh, I am so scared of the bat ball,' Mama said and pretended to shiver in jest


    47. Slam! Ali struck the ball with the bat


    48. That means his ability to turn the bat at the right time is


    49. I’ll even let out my dragon and he’ll bat your nipples around with his flaming head


    50. old bat” – he indicated the mounted head over the fireplace – “nearly














































    1. utterly bats, while the other half were most definitely hairy on the inside


    2. I'm hard to intimidate unless it's two goons in my house with sledgehammers and baseball bats threatening to break my children's’ bones


    3. She bats him lightly over the head with her napkin and laughs coyly; he turns to me looking distraught


    4. ’ I assured him as Joris mutters something about my land legs being pretty good too – Gilla bats him over the head with the cloth she is holding, giggling at his comment


    5. We moved the bats and the ball baskets inside and


    6. Look at them, thirteen-year-olds holding their bats with


    7. Their bats will be replaced


    8. One or two monsters fluttered by, maybe bats, but I kept going up and up until at last I reached the oracle and sat on a rock, quite flushed with my achievement


    9. 'Oh, really? Where, you will pull a hand-cart with these bats and balls?' Mama


    10. Ish dumped the bats for repair on the floor

    11. 'We need six bats, and these need repairs,' I said


    12. He went to the box and checked the other bats for cracks


    13. insolence, Ish rued spoiling the boy with gifts - sometimes kits, sometimes bats


    14. Davie bats the ball back into the doctor’s hands


    15. He thinks out loud, communing with no one, with nothing that matters, revealing to the woods, the badgers and the bats a simple logic


    16. What was that? Something flits past me, a high pitched noise – a bat! Now bats, there’re a different story, somehow magical


    17. Old mitts and bats were stacked neatly against the bottom of the walls, and they


    18. slow the ball down for their bats


    19. Peterman was 0 for his last 15 at bats,


    20. It was their nine-hole hitter who had struck out his previous at bats and

    21. The others carried baseball bats


    22. I knew bats could “see”


    23. Bats squeals could be heard like seagulls near the shore


    24. Halon prayed that the bats would not descend into this tunnel and attack them, digging their tiny razor sharp claws into their skin, biting their faces


    25. Bats were evil itself to Halon with their leathery wings and their stinking fur


    26. No more bats were encountered and Jayana estimated they had reached half way before they took rest in a large cavern


    27. Terry had always been terrified of bats, ever since he’d climbed into the loft as a teenager, disturbing a roost


    28. It wasn’t night falling, but thousands of fruit bats descending on the law enforcement group


    29. George had discovered when driving through his banana plantation that the bats seemed to follow him, and were making a meal of the banana crop


    30. He had finally realised that it was the sound the Shu-Roos made on the front of his four-wheel drive that attracted the bats

    31. They suspected he would not trouble them anymore, even if he did survive the Hendra Virus the bats were carrying


    32. To the moles and bats by the way


    33. “Uncle Bruce told me he’s going to bring home some bats


    34. Bruce’s collection of preserved bats was at the back of the room


    35. Example: A marine in uniform was beaten with baseball bats in the state of Washington


    36. “You should have seen Bruce fishing for bats down there in that jungle, Juliet


    37. He would skip the meteorite and the bats and concentrate on the Natives


    38. 22 on their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also


    39. The blind animal uses radar to move around, similar to bats on your planet


    40. is something good about mosquitoes: they feed frogs, birds, bats etc

    41. Above, I saw some bats flying


    42. As the bats


    43. Meanwhile, thirty-six footmen with the faces and wings of bats came in to hold the long cloaks of each of the priests, as they headed for the Cursed Temple—which was annexed to the headquarters of the church—


    44. In the temple, they put on masks of animals (wolves, bats, felines, and snakes) and the Highest Priest, taking a huge, sharp sword, began a ritual of destruction for the purpose of causing the deaths of Yania and Kami, through the emanation of psychic waves of destructive hate


    45. It could have been bats, but they were not sure


    46. I appreciate the offer Bats, but it could take years


    47. Clubbed with bats, boomerangs, punches and kicks


    48. The attackers carried weapons of all sorts: Guns, axes, shovels, baseball bats, kitchen knives


    49. They were al armed with bal bats and bars


    50. A flurry of bats










































    1. With a tentacle it batted him out of the way


    2. Paras batted a catch towards Ali, whose hands were busy tightening the cords


    3. Gina didn’t blush, only batted her eyes at the shower of compliments


    4. He was not able to wrest the dart gun from its grip, but it did fire wide when he batted at it and it might take Vic more than a second to get the next dart loaded


    5. He turned back around to continue his solitary drinking and the woman rushed off in a huff to sweep - in between assailing the other male patrons with honeyed words and batted eye-lashes, of course


    6. I batted at an insect as it caromed around my face


    7. I batted some of his blows aside, sidestepped others and countered with light scores where possible


    8. He batted playfully at my hand as I flipped the dial in search of an educational program


    9. Batted about in the West without much historical understanding


    10. Passersby looked at him with complete indifference; not a one batted an eyelid

    11. She taunted him, giving him the worst case of blue balls Toronto has ever seen, but refused sexual advances saying that she wasn’t the sort to engage in casual relationships, then batted her eyes in mock surprise when he suggested that he move in with her


    12. �I think we batted zero on this, Steve


    13. In her final throws, the dying girl batted a Sycler away


    14. Conal batted a couple from Piers’ shoulders, pulling his coat over his own head as protection


    15. Her eyes filled with tears she batted away


    16. ” I said huskily and she batted her eyelashes “What kind of show did you have in mind?” She whispered


    17. Sergeant McKinistry batted the spear head away with his sword


    18. Maybe it was the place I belonged after all the crap we had went through and all the sites we had visited the place I needed to be was the place I hadn’t even batted an eye at… even, after all this time


    19. You are so understanding” She batted her eyelashes, gazing at him with adoration


    20. “Please, D’ven? Please, oh pretty please?” She batted her eyelashes at him and he sighed, but shook his head

    21. then batted it halfway to hell


    22. That had them smiling even more, as they batted their flirting eyes at me


    23. She batted at my shoulder


    24. In 1924 he batted


    25. In the opener, the Bucs whipped the Cincinnati Reds, 13-0 with Clemente going three for four while collecting five runs batted in (RBI)


    26. Clemente batted


    27. Even though Stargell batted


    28. as they batted their intellects back and forth across the dining table


    29. The score now read 7-6; he had just batted two players in from second and third, helping the team take over the lead


    30. His eight runs batted in broke a school record as he was carried on the shoulders of his ecstatic teammates, to the middle of the field

    31. GET OUT!’ He threw himself forward at the wall and batted his face against it


    32. “He probably had his horse abducted from beneath him by the leader of the pack,” mused Evans, “and we do know he was one who batted for the other side


    33. He batted at Gasbag’s head a couple of times, only vaguely hearing the voice in the back of his mind that said “Hold your temper, hold your temper, hold your temper…


    34. of him in that instant, his d’k tahg ready to push through Sheaar’s heart if he even batted an eye


    35. The ball dropped towards Garcia and he batted it away with his Pain/Catcher


    36. lightly batted a goat away as it started chewing on my tripod cover


    37. The scene was a little bizarre, but nobody batted an eyelid as he walked with his usual indestructible self-confidence through the park with Melissa in his arms


    38. She tried to unzip his trousers, but he batted away her hand


    39. Its large brown eyes batted as if it was trying to charm me


    40. I burst out laughing as it twitched his tiny ears and batted its eyes again

    41. He batted his head against the headrest and spoke with sharp words


    42. Scared, I batted her behind me, and the dog pushed me into the shop door


    43. Then she batted my hands away and dressed me


    44. Pretty please?” Hands in prayer position, she batted her clear green eyes


    45. ’ I reached up and batted away a thick length of silk ribbon embroidered with poppies, then immediately regretted it


    46. I waited a moment before I went to her, just to be sure these were sad tears rather than angry ones which may result in my being batted away in a fury


    47. batted his eyes and offered a limp,


    48. "Promise?" Liam said and batted his eyes before


    49. batted his eyes and tried to look innocent


    50. He gestured to the phone pressed to his ear and batted off her words with a flick of his hand































    1. They have a tough plastic or hide side to expose to the ground, or sand in this case, with a nylon lining and dacron batting


    2. During the rest of the session I pitched batting practice with great success


    3. Just pretend that you are pitching batting practice


    4. He pointed to the Australian team batting on the


    5. 'Laxman and my batting styles are identical,' said another boy in the park


    6. He could be ready for a batting test anytime


    7. matter how many guys he throws out, or what his batting average is


    8. The batting cages hung on cables and could be


    9. ‘He admitted it all without batting an eyelid! How


    10. Page after page featured adorable kittens batting at strings and showing off their fat fuzzy tummies, but nothing resembling my hiding, hissing kitten

    11. “You’re mean,” she said impishly, batting her eyelashes in mock flirtation


    12. “Forty two,” I said without batting an eyelid


    13. They scooped their wings, batting them madly and fanned their tails to drift slowly above the melee, tiny heads darting from side to side, scanning for the perfect morsel


    14. I feel its weight and the prick of talons and fling my arm forward to shake it off, my hand batting at it


    15. “You’d better hope Darcy is a hell of a woman because so far, she’s batting zero with me


    16. She opened the little box and peered at the brooch, resting on a bed of white cotton batting


    17. She was having trouble dealing with the fact that Derek was a player, let alone batting for the other team


    18. Even the weather folks sometimes risk their batting average to venture a percentage of probability that it might rain tomorrow


    19. tossing, eyelid batting, and body accentuating strokes, all to which he paid great


    20. ” I said softly, batting my lashes at him and he paused then shook his head in resignation “Fine

    21. “That’s a little hard since she keeps batting her lashes at you right in front of me


    22. insulated with cotton batting


    23. • Use two or three pieces of polyester batting as stuffing for the pillow


    24. “Typical Boglehob,” croaked Dawes, batting away more chickens with his arms


    25. His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes


    26. Sir Donald Bradman, considered by many as the greatest batsman of all time, considered Tendulkar to have a batting style similar to his


    27. Since then Tendulkar's batting has tended to be less attacking


    28. Explaining this change in his batting style, he has acknowledged that he is batting differently because, firstly, no batsman can bat the same way for the entire length of a long career and, secondly, he is a senior member of the team now and thus has more responsibility


    29. He often bowls when two batsmen of the opposite team have been batting together for a long period, as he can often be a useful partnership breaker


    30. I was surely batting a

    31. I admire honesty in a man,” she said, batting


    32. Wind howled, and deep gloom, thick as mattress batting, cold as a hibernating toad, lay over the valley


    33. In clear, my batting average regarding sons and daughters is a zero


    34. agreed to this request without batting an eye


    35. His lifetime batting average was


    36. His lifetime batting average is


    37. He was the National League MVP in 1966 and four times batting champion in the senior circuit


    38. During the afternoon, while the children were having their nap, Aureliano Segundo sat on the porch and Fernanda pursued him even there, provoking him, tormenting him, hovering about him with her implacable horsefly buzzing, saying that, of course, while there was nothing to eat except stones, her husband was sitting there like a sultan of Persia, watching it rain, because that was all he was, a slob, a sponge, a good-for-nothing, softer than cotton batting, used to living off women and convinced that he had married Jonah’s wife, who was so content with the story of the whale


    39. In the beginning, I was batting a thousand


    40. That same day, he could come home and beat my Mom, without batting an eye

    41. It could be he changed horses in mid stream and had been batting for the other side


    42. In the final match when I was batting on 49 runs, I felt very thirsty


    43. I halted my batting in the middle of the match


    44. He was very carefree and without batting; even he did not know what was happening with him


    45. Sophia had wrapped her long braids around my knees, and I was batting away her hands as she tried to tie them together, “I need to pick up another one of my daughters across town and I’m going to be late


    46. There appeared to be a virtual batting cage off the left of


    47. Whenever I’d phone Jagdishbhai seeking time for an interview, he’d talk to me about my father’s batting instead


    48. Batting without the protection of a helmet was always a


    49. Sabina crossed into Mexico while Inacio slept, batting her eyes and pacifying the guards with her promiscuous clothes


    50. I remember batting painstakingly that day, whether to








































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    Synonyms for "bat"

    at-bat bat chiropteran cricket bat squash racket squash racquet flutter clobber cream drub lick thrash round turn up club mallet racket pole knock hit rap swat sock whack strike

    "bat" definitions

    nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate


    (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit


    a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash


    the club used in playing cricket


    a club used for hitting a ball in various games


    strike with, or as if with a baseball bat


    wink briefly


    have a turn at bat


    use a bat


    beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight