Synonym: clout, crack, hit, knock, strike. Similar words: combat, baths, debate, battery, bathroom, verbatim. Meaning: [bæt] n. 1. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate 2. (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit 3. a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash 4. the club used in playing cricket 5. a club used for hitting a ball in various games. v. 1. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat 2. wink briefly 3. have a turn at bat 4. use a bat 5. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.
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(91) But the star attraction proved a flop with the bat - he was out first ball.
(92) Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years.
(93) I could see right off the bat that there were going to be problems.
(94) They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.
(95) Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
(96) She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table.
(97) He was no such prodigy as a cricketer, but made the Warwickshire side as an attacking bat and top-class fielder.
(98) But Dole, at 73, comes to bat very late in a long and wearisome game.
(99) Some species of fruit bat also sip nectar when it is available.
(100) On average, most batters foul at least one ball in each at bat.
(101) In both cases the sounds are audible to humans, not ultrasonic like the more specialized bat clicks.
(102) This, after all, is a kid whose arm was almost as acclaimed as his bat.
(103) I heave on the baseball bat, and wrench the chain from the big guy's hand.
(104) Regular catcher Javy Lopez hit. 295, so Cox sent Lopez up to bat for Perez.
(105) And farmers watching a demonstration of grass cutters didn't bat an eyelid at the state of the pasture.
(106) The following Summer in London, while shopping for a cricket bat, his journal fills with prices and estimates of quality.
(107) Holding his bat with the precision of a monk wielding a quill pen, he waited patiently for whatever Mafouz should deliver.
(108) They use personalized K. C. Slammers baseball bats, and now you can get your own customized bat, too.
(109) To score runs they had to put bat to ball - a realisation which came all too late.
(110) It was assumed that he would not bat, if only as a precaution, but out he came.
(110) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
(111) Bat cries, as we have seen, have a pulse-repetition rate in the tens or hundreds per second.
(112) So these particular species of bat or whale are living and working in a sonar world.
(113) It was then that he noticed the new paint design resembled the bat symbol.
(114) With one out, Valentine brought in a lefty, Takashi Kashiwada, to force Veras to bat right-handed.
(115) What conclusion should be drawn from this apparent imbalance between bat and ball?
(116) Yet people ignore the plight of, say, the several species of bat which are on the edge of extinction.
(117) Oswestry's First Division game against Shrewsbury was limited to five deliveries after they had put the visitors into bat.
(118) Instead, off her own bat, the girl went to see a solicitor in Newton Abbott, Devon.
(119) Five days afterwards, callous Paul used the same bat to play baseball.
(120) Senators sit in big armchairs at mahogany desks and bat around millions of dollars.