How to Use beach ball in a Sentence

beach ball

noun
  • Life preservers hung on the wall, and beach balls adorned the counter.
    Anne Roderique-Jones, SELF, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Oh God, and when the beach ball comes onto the golf course.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The Up 5 Lounge Chair looks like a bunch of beach balls in a red bathing suit.
    Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The explosion punched a beach ball-sized hole in the wall.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 1 June 2021
  • The head was the size of a beach ball, the muscles fantastic.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Squirt guns, beach balls, small stones (thrown at its butt) help scare it off, too.
    Rachel Levin, Health.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The base bin can hold small or medium pool floats and beach balls, while the above shelves can keep tiny toys tidy.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Standing just beyond the surf, Smith, armed with a beach ball and coached by McGuire, reared back and threw.
    Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Our final dinner is top-shelf, a king crab the size of a beach ball in the middle of the table.
    Carl Fincke, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Blow up an 18- to 24-inch round balloon or beach ball (the size will depend on child’s height).
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The size of a beach ball and the weight of a person, Sputnik took about 98 minutes to complete a loop around the planet.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Her butt resembled a swollen beach ball, which freaked her out.
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Ask two kids to hold a towel stretched taut and challenge them to bounce a beach ball in the air, catching it with the towel.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Red-white-and-blue beach balls bounced atop the line, rock-concert style, as the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd blared through loudspeakers.
    Manny Fernandez, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
  • There were cheers and chants and speeches, bouncing beach balls, jugglers and cocktails for the above-aged.
    Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The imaging system, dubbed the MX-15, attached to the underbelly of the aerostat was roughly the size of a beach ball.
    Annie Jacobsen, Wired, 20 Jan. 2021
  • An inflatable beach ball in the shape of a six-sided die that bounced around one section early in the night.
    Mitch Goldich, SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • There are many simple pleasures in the summer — eating a snow cone on a hot day, batting at a beach ball in the pool.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 13 July 2020
  • Students laughed with friends and snapped pictures of friends in beach attire, with beach balls and towels.
    Christine Fernando, Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2020
  • There were lots of margaritas — and multiple beach balls in the pit, of course.
    Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If the skin is thick, peel the cucumber or half peel it in alternating stripes like a beach ball.
    ExpressNews.com, 5 June 2019
  • There’s way too much batting around the beach ball and not nearly enough slobber-knocking in the trenches.
    Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The ceiling is covered with an ocean of red and green balloons, striped beach balls, and inflatable sharks and fish.
    Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • There will be beach ball volleyball and cornhole games set up.
    Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But his days were brightened when friends joined him in a therapeutic catch with a beach ball.
    Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The pressure, which Kerr and D’Antoni have batted back and forth like a beach ball, is pressing down on everyone.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 2018
  • So far, 55 pounds of meteorites have been collected from the Costa Rican site, which add up to about the size of a beach ball.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2019
  • Teachers danced along, while others kept some beach balls bouncing over the crowd at Civic Center Park.
    CBS News, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Homemade signs, screaming teenagers and bouncing beach balls aren’t new to concerts.
    Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Condo dwellers Details: The landmark beach ball water tower stands guard over the county’s southernmost shores.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

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