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softball

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand. 2 (context by analogy English) A question designed to be easy to answer. 3 The ball used to play the sport.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. ball used in playing softball [syn: playground ball ] a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer [syn: softball game ] [ant: hardball ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB play ▪ In doing so, we often find that our years of playing softball have given us some excellent training indeed. ▪ The park boasts eight playing fields that are almost always filled with teams playing baseball, softball ...

Usage examples of softball.

Basketball player, softball pitcher, jump-rope tugger, Donnie Buffett had very strong hands.

Vlachic were across the yard, talking to Izzy Zanella, who was trying to get a softball game going.

Her mother sounded exactly like she used to when telling about upcoming plans for a symposium on a weekend Andi had softball games.

Each submunition, about the size and shape of a softball, was an onion of destruction.

Modern Oklahoma boasts both plant and animal life as well as the National Softball Hall of Fame, where every day from nine A.

She said good-bye to him then, and walked down the Tu Do to her hotel, and she felt a terrible tug at her heart at the sounds and the smells, and she laughed as she looked into the square and saw a GI trying to teach a bunch of street urchins how to play softball.

Peter had let it go to seed, and the entire plot was choked with weeds and litter: gas cans, rusty nails, a plastic toy truck, the decaying hide of a softball, cardboard scraps, this and more resting upon a matte of desiccated vines.

Sports news at this hour: The Pickax Miners beat the Brrr Eskimos in softball tonight, eight to three.

All eyes were on this man as with almost ritualistic earnestness, in the midst of much joking, laughing, clowning about of the players, he pitched underhand the dazzling-white softball to a figure crouched at bat-Sable Mills, herself-an energetic and feisty figure, yet not much of an athlete-Sable with her brassy hair newly cut in a virtual flattop, a wicked silver clamp on one ear, in black sleeveless sweater and matching jodhpurs that fitted her wiry body as if she'd been poured into them like melted wax.

Recently, she'd been playing softball, a Sunday pickup game in a nearby park, kind of a boys-meet-girls event, but many of the participants competed seriously, and she'd bought a black graphite bat last week, which was still propped in a corner a few feet from where she was now, in the living room.

A slow-pitch softball league operating in Chamisa County included two teams from Milagro: the Saints, who were made up largely of players from the town, including Charley Bloom, Rlhi Archuleta, Johnny Pacheco, Jimmy Ortega, Benny Maestas, Claudio Garcia, and Joe Mondragon, and the Angels, who were largely a Devine conglomerate, and for whom Horse-thief Shorty, Nick Rael, BernabS Montoya, and Harlan Betchel and his anemic seventeen-year-old son, Albie, played.

This time, instead of bowlers, there appeared to be a softball team—guys in sweatpants and matching short-sleeved shirts that sported the name of a local electrical supply firm in stitching across the back.

This time, instead of bowlers, there appeared to be a softball teamguys in sweatpants and matching short-sleeved shirts that sported the name of a local electrical supply firm in stitching across the back.

Cub Scout troops, Brownies, junior high basketball teams, garden clubs, book clubs, tea clubs, Bible study groups, adult softball teams, civic clubs.

Ahead, Sinnissippi Park opened before her, softball diamonds and picnic areas bright with moonlight, woods and burial grounds laced with shadows.