Sentence examples for were a ball from inspiring English sources
One sea lion played with a conch shell as if it were a ball.
Sunday night headliners the Village People were a ball of pure joy.
A couple of times, Sharapova got Vujacic's attention by nodding at him as if he were a ball boy.
Allen Henderson, who runs the blog AwfulCommericals.com, was bothered by a Toyota ad showing a man dragging a rusted heap of a car uphill as if it were a ball and chain.
He films the battle as if it were a ball, emphasizing the coordinated movement of troops from one tableaulike composition to another, and he films the ball as if it were a battle, as the many rooms of the palace, each opening on another, are invaded by snaking lines of dancers.
When batting, Hatchett wears a specially designed Kevlar chest guard – were a ball to strike him in the area lacking muscle or bone for protection, the result could be anything from mild winding to a possibly fatal punctured lung – and it is only now, six years into his professional career, that he feels confident talking about it all.
He hit balls at me for hundreds of thousands of hours, as if he were a Ball-Boy machine".
Mussina called his performance unacceptable and said his pitches were a ball-width or two away from where he wanted them to be.
His first pitch was a ball.
