Examples of line drive in a Sentence
He hit a hard line drive to the shortstop.
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In the video, a lanky kid is smoothly fielding balls on a dirt infield, then throwing hard strikes from the mound, and then lacing line drives from the left-handed batter’s box.
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Dan Freedman, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Nine minutes into the second, the Griffins took the lead for good when Victoria Bloch took a short pass from Vivi Zacarias, positioned herself about 25 yards from the goal, stopped and kicked a line drive over the keeper’s head and into the net.
—Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025
Aaron Judge dropped a line drive in center field for his first error all season.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
The goal is to hit the ball hard and hit line drives and barrel them up.
—Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
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Dan Freedman, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Nine minutes into the second, the Griffins took the lead for good when Victoria Bloch took a short pass from Vivi Zacarias, positioned herself about 25 yards from the goal, stopped and kicked a line drive over the keeper’s head and into the net.
—Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025
Aaron Judge dropped a line drive in center field for his first error all season.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
The goal is to hit the ball hard and hit line drives and barrel them up.
—Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
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“Line drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/line%20drive. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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