Sentence examples for losing ball from inspiring English sources

His savvy and intensity served him well in turning losing ball clubs into pennant winners in his 21 seasons as a manager.

'It beats running around a bloody track.' She shields her eyes against the sun to watch a golfer across the fairway, a fellow novice losing ball after ball trying to clear a river obstacle on the fiendish 7th.

This Broadway confection from 1955 tells the fanciful story of a despairing fan of a losing ball club who sells his soul to the very Devil to help his team snatch the pennant from the big, bad, baseball-ruling Bronx Bombers.

"I keep losing balls because there are no leaves in the trees to knock down a wayward shot".

Players have been losing balls in the rough during practice rounds, and rain this week has made the rough even thicker.

A twice lost ball, 250 miles from home".

"For every lost ball, there was a forlorn search, perfunctory or thorough," John Updike wrote in the foreword to "Lost Balls," a 2005 golf book.

There's more to decode on a lost ball than someone's subjective hieroglyph.

You saw him running and pressing for a lost ball and that was fantastic.

That would make it easy to turn to Page 181: how to find a lost ball.

One day, chasing a lost ball, Joshua finds a secret passageway.