What is "balled"

Usage examples of "balled".

Seated, slumped over, her fists balled at her eyes, sat Jacy Grayson, second cousin to his best friend, Aaron.

He balled his fists and hammered them down on the table, nearly upsetting my beer.

I scrambled to one knee, fists balled, then coughed a wet laugh of triumph and joy.

No match for the Extinguisher, who balled his fist, intending to coldcock the walking intelligence source before he knew what hit him.

He retracted his claws, balled his hands into fists and bent over double gasping for air.

Gilwyn balled his good hand into a fist, struggling to summon an image of the two in his mind, but the harder he tried the more distorted the images became.

Emuin, the hills hid it from him, while to his backward glance the column had grown behind him, continuing to form inside the monastery walls like a balled string extending itself, and that unwinding was almost done now.

If the new queens had been set loose without formality, the bees would have balled them at once because of their protectiveness towards the queen they already had.

Without a word Olmec balled his free hand into a huge fist and stretched the wounded warrior senseless at his feet.

But look at Navajoa, how balled up that company is with its stocks all scattered around.

Doyle glanced from the machines to the troops, then back to the cluster of angry felines, one of the tigerlike creatures, his expression that of a man halfway through a string of profanity, balled one forepaw into a fist, and slammed it savagely into the other forepaw.

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The malamutes, since their toes were close together, were all right, but with the huskies the snow had balled and frozen hard, and in biting their paws to release the congested toes they had broken the skin and left raw flesh.

Skan balled his talons into fists and pounded his back until he stopped coughing and waved Skan off.

She took off again, straight through the hedge passage, staying low, bent over as she ran, grateful for every day of-her workouts, her right arm held up, her hand balled in a fist.