The phrase "attends a ball" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to formal events, dances, or social gatherings, often in a historical or literary setting.
Example: "In the story, the protagonist attends a ball where she meets the prince for the first time."
Alternatives: "goes to a ball" or "participates in a ball".
And when Abe attends a ball and dances with his future wife, Ford shoots Fonda's long legs with the same amused affection he would show years later, in "My Darling Clementine," when Fonda's Wyatt Earp attends a country dance.
This introduced the "outsider" character that became a hallmark of his ballets, in this case a female clown who attends a ball at which her host falls in love with her until she loses the mask that has made her attractive.
One photo from 1933 shows a beaming Eleanor Roosevelt (as guest of honor) attending a ball — 10,000 attended — to benefit unemployed women.
The first game of the series, on Sunday, June 7 , 1883 drew what one local paper called "the biggest crowd that ever attended a ball game in St . Louis.
The first game of the series, on Sunday, June 17 , 1883 drew what one local paper called "the biggest crowd that ever attended a ball game in St . Louis.
By Anthony Hiss The New Yorker, September 20 , 1969P. 33 Talk story about attending a ball game between the Mets and the Cubs at Shea Stadium.
The next year, the party moved to Venice, where guests were ferried along the Grand Canal in gondolas to attend a ball in the Palazzo Pisani Moretta, wearing jewel-encrusted masks commissioned for the event.
But according to an outrageous soufflé of a memoir by Baron Alexis de Redé (Marie-Hélène's vampirish sidekick, with whom the Rothschilds lived in a ménage as surprising as it was successful), when the baroness was too ill to attend a ball he hosted, she slipped a coat over her nightdress, hid in a corner and watched.
In 1914, Mr. Dundar said, the 33-year-old Ataturk attended a ball in the Czech spa of Carlsbad with a Turkish diplomat and his wife, who remarked that she could not imagine such a scene — the dancing, the dress — in her home country.
