How to Use beach ball in a Sentence

beach ball

noun
  • The pair later tossed a blue and white beach ball with friends.
    — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Life preservers hung on the wall, and beach balls adorned the counter.
    — Anne Roderique-Jones, SELF, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Squirt guns, beach balls, small stones (thrown at its butt) help scare it off, too.
    — Rachel Levin, Health.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • By the time Lauper took the stage, beach ball fun was over.
    — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Her butt resembled a swollen beach ball, which freaked her out.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But there were also beach balls, cheers, flags and fireworks.
    — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The head was the size of a beach ball, the muscles fantastic.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Rogers' team busted out a bunch of beach balls during their set, which was fun — at first.
    — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There will be beach ball volleyball and cornhole games set up.
    — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Very small ants on a very big ball Imagine holding a huge beach ball in your hands.
    — Nilakshi Veerabathina, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For Garbage’s Shirley Manson, that thing was a beach ball.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But his days were brightened when friends joined him in a therapeutic catch with a beach ball.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The Up 5 Lounge Chair looks like a bunch of beach balls in a red bathing suit.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 3 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • On small pilasters sit 200-pound beach balls, cast in bronze and painted to match the room.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2024
  • Students laughed with friends and snapped pictures of friends in beach attire, with beach balls and towels.
    — Christine Fernando, Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Homemade signs, screaming teenagers and bouncing beach balls aren’t new to concerts.
    — Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • But when the snake stops looking like a beach ball there will still be bicycle retailers.
    — Ryan Stuart, Outside Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • 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 were lots of margaritas — and multiple beach balls in the pit, of course.
    — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most ice balls are roughly the size of softballs or beach balls, but some can get as large as three feet in diameter.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tubes and other floaties on the smaller side can often be blown up by mouth, similar to a beach ball.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022
  • Balloons, beach balls or other inflatable items.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2025

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