How to Use ball game in a Sentence

ball game

noun
  • Dad took us to a ball game.
  • He was popular because he was good at ball games.
  • Take them out to the ball game!
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That turned out to be the ball game.
    — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But this was like a whole new ball game.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
  • For Ukraine this is the whole ball game.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
  • My dad could drive me there with his feet up and a ball game on.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But the worst coach of all is a bad coach who can win ball games.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Those are the kind of ball games that winning teams have to be in.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
  • This will be a new ball game in terms of the level and breadth of the threat.
    — Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • At least not as long as the Knicks are winning ball games.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Heck of a ball game, very good offensive game for fans to watch.
    — USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The director is the whole ball game.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The trips to the park, the walks with the dogs, the wiffle-ball games in the street.
    — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
  • Take me out to the ball game, go for a run and practice yoga this week.
    — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
  • After the first two touchdowns, our kids fought back the rest of the ball game.
    — Katherine Griffith, Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Big gatherings such as concerts and ball games will not be first to open.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The Delta variant is, in some respects, a whole new ball game.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The race is a whole different ball game, but having that speed is nice.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
  • But going on single and playing that role is a whole 'nother ball game.
    — Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
  • Four hours in the car with your besties is one thing, 14 is a whole other ball game.
    — The Editors, Seventeen, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Louisiana goes for it, gets it, and that's the ball game.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But this reveals a different ball game.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Take me out to the ball game and buy me a Dairy Queen Blizzard.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The first step was my self-tape, and that was pretty word-for-word the ball game scene that’s in [the first episode].
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
  • There is also a ball roller game and a toss ball game that provides you with six plastic balls to play with.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 27 May 2021
  • That's the ball game and that's what the Harris campaign is doing.
    — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The 3-year-old was a lover of baseball and had a T-ball game scheduled the next day.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2022
  • Our expert was down on the high price tag but saving $170 means its a whole new ball game.
    — Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 4 June 2024
  • Take her out to the (tennis) ball game, and Katie Holmes is going to hit it big.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2025

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