What is "fielded"

Usage examples of "fielded".

Information Amos Bulla fielded new questions like a man before a firing squad dodging bullets.

While Imber fielded a phone call, Faraday perched himself on the edge of a nearby desk.

On nothing else could Tempus reach a consensus: not on where the Stepsons would best be fielded next, or whether Successors or specials should continue to be integrated into his shock troops, nor even if Tyse was a suitable permanent base for his Sacred Banders, though a manifestation of Abarsis on bier day in the high peaks had convinced the fighters themselves of that.

The Iraqi Army began the Iran-Iraq War as one of the most heavily politicized forces in modern history but ended it as one of the most professional a modern Arab state has ever fielded.

Bill Door fielded a stook as it was blown past, and stacked it with the others.

Twice Palli tried to toss the conversational ball to him, to take a turn at the entertaining, and twice he fielded it back to Palli or to dy Ferrej.

The main reason the Rebels had not fielded the Piranhas prior to this was that the crews had to be trained from scratch on the machine.

For example, the fifty-one divisions in the KTO were commanded by eight corps headquarters, each of which also fielded independent armored brigades, commando brigades, and artillery battalions, not to mention all of the logistical formations that the Iraqi Army concentrated at corps level.

He said that Sir James was long since dead of camp fever during the War of the Three Marriages in service with the army fielded by Duke Henry Tudor in Aquitaine and France.

The boy fielded it with expertise and had it in his mouth before Brandt exhaled his smoke.

It took me the rest of the day to put everything right, during which time I fielded over a dozen phonecalls from borderline-crazies asking for Mary.

Professor Burke ran forward automatically, fielded the ball adeptly, held it until the runner had made a well-earned circuit of the coconut bases, and threw it to the shouting pitcher.

He’d knocked a heavy balata ball out of McKissic Field and fielded like a man with some kind of magnet for horsehides sewn into his glove.

Bill Abrams, Ross Baughman, Charles Bell, Laurence Bergreen, John Bethell, Sara Bethell, Lisa Colt, Sandy Colt, Byron Dobell, Lars Engle, Rob Farnsworth, Campbell Geeslin, Eric Gibson, Paula Glatzer, Peter Gradjansky, Maggie Hivnor, Kathy Holub, Rhonda Johnson, Pepe Karmel, Susan McCarthy, Charlie Monheim, Mark O'Donnell, Dan Okrent, Julie Salamon, Kathy Schuler, Carol Whitmore, and Sherri Yingst fielded my questions with good grace.

The crew of the new Bozeman fielded hugs and shoves from the crew of the new starship.