Sentence examples for earnest ball from inspiring English sources

"The U.S. and the West have wisely decided to allow the regime to make its claims of victory at home, so long as they play earnest ball in meetings abroad," Mr. Milani said.

On the Grammys, and also on "Saturday Night Live," he performed with a band set up behind podiums emblazoned with JT & The Tennessee Kids, a visual nod to swing bands and a gimmick that lands on the blue-eyed soul spectrum somewhere between throwback fetishist Mayer Hawthorne and earnest cheese ball Robin Thicke.

Only then did he prepare in earnest to toss the ball and deliver a serve.

Adu is a millionaire teenager before kicking a ball in earnest.

Within a year of picking up an oval ball in earnest he was on the Ireland Youths squad, and a few years after that he had signed up to Munster's Academy.

"However we're not out of the woods yet and haven't kicked a ball in earnest". Brown initially joined the Harriers board in March as vice chairman, before becoming chairman following the resignation of Ken Rae.

Even that wasn't as ugly as the 1993 playoff game in which the Houston Oilers allowed the Buffalo Bills to come back and win from a third-quarter 32-point deficit; or as heartbreaking as when Cleveland Browns running back Earnest Byner fumbled the ball in a last-second push for the game-tying touchdown in the 1988 AFC Championship game against the Denver Broncos.

Kosar handed the ball to Earnest Byner on a second down.

Gone for 74 days, he really just started hitting balls in earnest again about a week and a half ago.

And all the chatter about public parks and ball fields is earnest and fine, but the city already has a lot of those.

Attending graduate school, where tertiary education in the United States begins in earnest, is a whole different ball game and one that can leave a student with a lifetime of debt.