Sentence examples for a dead bat from inspiring English sources

Shorten's playing a dead bat on that.

The refreshing interlude ended abruptly when she bumped into a dead bat in the water.

The Treasury played a dead bat on Mr Brown's likely response to Ms Hewitt.

Dowling's response to the 59% vote was to play a dead bat.

Clarke also played with a dead bat over Kevin Pietersen's future with England.

Sometimes the call would be about a dead bat that had been brought inside by somebody's dog.

Asked if Pietersen had a Test future with England Cook presented a pointedly dead bat.

He is very good at defusing rows – he plays a good dead bat.

Watching him in Melbourne yesterday, playing a painfully dead bat to those seeking enlightenment on the fate of Kevin Pietersen, it would be unsurprising if he yearned for the simple challenges of rural life.

During the two years monitoring at one site in Germany where G. destructans prevalence reached high levels in March-April, not a single dead bat was found.

One of the scenarios suggested that an infected fruit bat might drop a piece of contaminated fruit within a pig sty or, alternatively, an infected sick or dead bat might be eaten by pigs.