softball

IPA: sˈɔftbɔɫ

noun

  • (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
  • (sports) The ball used to play the sport.
  • (by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer.
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Examples of "softball" in Sentences

  • It was a softball of a question.
  • A catcher of Saki's softball team.
  • In 2004, the softball team won the.
  • Comparison of baseball and softball.
  • Comparison with softball and baseball.
  • I mean softball...and college softball...
  • Baseball and softball will be discontinued in 2012.
  • The ball beeps and is a modified, and oversized, softball.
  • Differences between regular softball and intramural softball.
  • They are called The Benchwarmers and play competitively ASA softball.
  • One daughter is going to Band Camp, the other is playing in softball tournaments, and the son is going to summer camp.
  • Each summer, the "Bleacher Creatures" organize a round-robin softball tournament of four teams playing for the Ali Ramirez trophy.
  • At a July 2005 meeting, IOC members voted 52-52, with one abstention, to cut softball from the Olympic program after the 2008 Games.
  • Also, anent the dropping of baseball/softball from the Olympics, the ECONOMIST published this list of other sports that were dropped.
  • The International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to drop baseball and softball from the Summer Games after this year's Beijing Games.
  • Mike Candrea, the U.S. Olympic coach and University of Arizona head coach, expects such growth to be affected when softball is no longer in the Olympics.
  • The rule in softball is the players can't lead off the base, however they can run and potentially steal bases as soon as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand.
  • Regardless, this is really a case about nothing more than ringers in softball leagues, hardly a new phenomenon even if this case adds an additional wrinkle.
  • No current Dem leader would threaten such a thing because under Washington rules, only manly Republicans are allowed to play hardball — for Democrats to play anything but softball is unseemly.

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