ballgame

[ US /bɔɫˈɡeɪm/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔːlɡe‍ɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation
    HDTV looks the same but it's really a whole new ballgame
  2. a field game played with a ball (especially baseball)

How To Use ballgame In A Sentence

  • His ballgame companion, Marge Locke, is just as avid a fan.
  • Ballgames, bikes, scooters and a seeming unending game of tag keep the decibels up.
  • He'd pitch in at family parties, passing salami, praising Mom's baked ziti, while my dad and the uncles sat silently puffing cigars, trying to sneak peeks at the ballgame.
  • I just got off the phone with him, and I think he senses that this is a whole new ballgame now.
  • Some friends got me to see it, I kind of yawned at the suggestion of a foreign prison movie as it seems like a boring plot these days but - it came to remind me how something can be a whole different ballgame just by who shot it, how they shot it, and where they psychologically took the movie. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • The Chicago Cubs came back from a deficit to win the ballgame.
  • In a move that is sure to rock the sports novelty song world, Cracker Jack has been removed from the American classic, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Ben Oren: Cracker Jack Loses Rights to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
  • In a move that is sure to rock the sports novelty song world, Cracker Jack has been removed from the American classic, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Ben Oren: Cracker Jack Loses Rights to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
  • EXAMPLE: Our previous management restricted our creativity, but after a new president was appointed, it was a whole new ballgame, and we could be quite innovative in every aspect of our work.Sentencedict
  • And it's a cultural divide between those who believe that baseball represents something pure and simple -- father and son deciding on the spur of the moment to take in a ballgame, some peanuts and Cracker Jack -- and those who see sports as fuel to drive the engine of urban redevelopment, grease the dealmaking of the nation's corporate chieftains, and supply television with a steady source of programming to wrap around commercials. Ernie Harwell and the story of baseball
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