How to Use ball field in a Sentence

ball field

noun
  • The lot that had been a dump was now a busy ball field.
    New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Just up the hill, Pete and his friends had carved out a makeshift ball field.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 June 2022
  • The next Wednesday, Alex and a few others set up camp on the ball field.
    Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Watching my sons on the ball fields and in hockey rinks across our city.
    Michael F. Flaherty, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Across the street are a playground, basketball courts, and a ball field.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The ball field was dark; zoo staff were waiting outside the perimeter with nets.
    Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The concerts are held at the Umbrella Bar, which overlooks the ball fields.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Ronald Mitchell, the board’s chairman, told AL.com this week that the board will discuss whether to remove Plump’s name from the ball field.
    Joseph D. Bryant, al, 27 May 2023
  • Who first shows up to play on Kevin Costner’s gleaming ball field?
    New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Even though the Astros are back on the ball field, the fans who love them are watching remotely.
    Houston Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Adding a dog park would help deter loitering near the ball fields.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The team your dad liked can determine your allegiance; so can the first ball field your mom took you to.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Terry Francois Boulevard will end at Pier 48, and the green strip and kid-size ball field along the cove will be removed.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • But his pursuit of Ruth's record of 714 home runs proved a deeply troubling affair beyond the pressures of the ball field.
    Richard Goldstein, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart helped lead an effort to build a new ball field.
    Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 7 June 2019
  • Next to the 20-barrel brewhouse is a Wiffle ball field that the owners hope will attract leagues three to four nights a week.
    Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Around 2010, the farmer who owned the ball field and surrounding acreage decided to sell the property.
    Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Access to the ball fields has been offered to the Little League free of charge for decades, and hundreds of youths play there each week when the season’s in full swing.
    oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Country Lakes Park is a 30-acre park with a ball field, trail, sled hill, basketball courts and a wetland area.
    Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 4 May 2018
  • The average life span of stadium ball field is about 10 years.
    Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • LeJeune said the complex’s T-ball field is the only one with recreational turf.
    al, 28 July 2022
  • Now that can mean gently working from the ball field on an iPhone while watching your kids play or at the beach as your kids boogie-board.
    Matt Mallory, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • Coffey suggested the money might be better spent to improve the ball fields and restrooms in the park.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The waste seeped into large swaths of soil, including on land that later became ball fields.
    Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Davis starred in the film as the iconic Dottie Hinson — tall and beautiful, but also wickedly skilled on the ball field.
    Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2022
  • For blacks, the Hill became an increasingly less inviting place to live, more crime-ridden, more derelict, and by the late 1960s the Courier, the ball fields, and most of the jazz clubs were gone.
    Gerald Early, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Includes art show, wiffle ball field, bounce house, local food and drinks, live music.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 8 May 2022
  • Today, the ball field and gas station stand as timeworn reminders of an exotic era gone by.
    Rob Levin, ajc, 11 July 2021
  • Despite appearances, he feels called to create a ball field in his cornfield.
    Leah Hall, Country Living, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On Saturday, Miceli arrived at the ball field using a walker.
    Lucas Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018

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