How to Use softball in a Sentence

softball

noun
  • Do you want to play softball?
  • All the questions in the interview were softballs.
  • Oregon softball opens the 2023 season ranked in the first of the two major polls.
    oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Travis Kelce is showing off his softball skills all in the name of a good cause.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 9 June 2024
  • The softball team has won the last six CHL championships.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
  • The softball game starts at 5 p.m., before the Royals take on the San Diego Padres that night.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
  • The school is closed for spring break, but the boys’ baseball and girls’ softball teams have games today.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The young mother, who grew up in Villa Park and played softball, died the next day.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Japan loves baseball, and along with softball the sport was added back in Tokyo in 2020.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Oh, and by the way, the win clinched FSK’s first softball regional title in over 25 years.
    Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Bragg has been selected The Times’ softball player of the year.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
  • The softball and soccer teams also play their games there.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Twentynine Palms was a place where the mayor coached the high school softball team.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Which baseball and softball Fort Worth-area athletes should be named player of the week?
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • On a day when many softball teams in the Bay Area had their games rained out, Dublin was able to win a thriller at a tournament.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • While this season of AU softball wraps up this week, Willis hopes to continue with the league.
    Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
  • Saturday at the UConn softball complex, the story played out the same way again.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2024
  • Jones was reportedly a straight-A student and was on the high school softball team.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • That would include three of six tennis courts, a parking lot and a softball field.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Weiler was considered the best pitcher in the world in the 1970s, when men’s fastpitch softball was at its peak.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Dawson is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and Finch is one of the best softball players ever.
    Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • Like her older sis, Ivey also plays softball and is quite a dancer!
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 27 July 2023
  • Chase playing softball Craig Lackey Chase’s first game that day was a win.
    Anna Turning, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • The baseball and softball fields are quiet at Daphne’s 3-year-old sports complex this month.
    al, 28 July 2022
  • Kendall Lenz is accustomed to making big plays on the softball field.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Sports In high school sports, the spring seasons wrapped up with the softball and baseball state championships.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • Since their deaths, a new softball park and amphitheater were built and named after them.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The retired softball player and two-time Olympic athlete teamed up with e.l.f.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • There was no shame in the outcome against the Marist, which could be called the Oklahoma of Illinois high school softball this season.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • Mom Heidi was a college softball shortstop at two schools.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024

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