How To Use Bats In A Sentence

The popular beauty spot is home to a variety of wildlife including birds and types of bats.
It's the sort of thing I tend to call a batshit story, and though this term has not caught on as the latest literary, uh, movement, it's the only label that seems to fit so much of the sort of writing I love. Archive 2005-12-01
Prions tous pour nos propres pilotes à qui on a fait appel, pour une fin rapide des combats, et pour l'instauration d'un gouvernement de la Libye par les libyens qui respecte les droits de l'homme. Bishop Pierre Whalon: 'Just War' And The Intervention In Libya
The American troops come home in disgrace and the American military is taunted and ridiculed by the American media, global media, Islamic terrorists, and the moonbats here and aborad. Sound Politics: What It Means
He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Batsmen need to use their feet cleverly when playing on the slightly slower pitches here so that they are in a position to play the ball without mistiming it.
He was a left arm seamer and opening batsmen who played two first class matches.
When we started, people didn't know what bilbies and boodies and bettons and numbats were, and now they do.
Lune-atic Yipsie comes with skin and shape with red horns ,..with and without candles red hair,..with and without flowers and bats with her bodytied skinsuit and her rats around her neck she can be found being lune-ing around touch pumpkin on table for lune-atic yipsie move Archive 2008-11-01
We were helping the umpires by two of the batsmen walking off (without being given out) which was disappointing as well. Times, Sunday Times
The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
Such away swingers have beaten the best batsmen from both teams.
I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good.
He is also able to bring the ball back off the seam into right-handers, a quality that makes two of India's top batsmen, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman, look distinctly uncomfortable.
Lola saw bad boy Batster under dray bid tree fluttin 'wif dray bid dirl. Seventeen
At Leeds he made 309 in a day; a modern batsman does well to score a century in that time.
If Australia had sent two nightwatchmen out to bat last night, and the rains came before a ball had been bowled, would the same two batsmen have to start the innings this morning?
It would be extremely unfair to start messing around with the batsmen after one game.
They then extrapolated back along the bat family tree to calculate how big the brain of the common ancestor of living bats was.
What causes the balls to fly off these bats is a nifty bit of physics called the trampoline effect.
Kallis 'major strength as a batsman is his ability to concentrate, and so he doesn't chuck his wicket away very often. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
The batsman slammed the ball straight at a fielder.
He said that there are different ways for batsmen to score runs, and indeed there are different ways to win.
bats feed on insects and fruit.
Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks.
After their bowling inadequacies were exposed earlier in the series, Australia gambled this time by dropping a batsman.
Kirtley was the most dangerous, swinging the ball considerably, and forcing the batsmen to play.
Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians.
I’m planning to post various entries on bats at some stage (including on New Zealand’s mystacinids, recently discovered European bats, and on megabat evolution), but haven’t gotten round to it yet. Archive 2006-06-01
It involves breakdancing, acrobats and, you guessed it, a trampoline. Times, Sunday Times
The rules against corking bats, applying foreign substances to the ball, and so forth are cheats that either don’t work, or require a fair amount of skill to execute (a spitter is not an easy pitch to throw). Matthew Yglesias » PEDs
Their senior batsmen played a handful of fluent shots, but there was no stickability in the top end of the order, so that wickets fell at a steady rate.
Much of the narrative of both is taken up with the description of the single combats of heroes. Celtic Mythology
This Duncan rookie has been smashing the ball at a rate of one round-tripper every 4.6 at-bats. Ladies and Gentlemen, the next Mickey Mantle
Training for these performances often requires the use of whips, tight collars, electric prods and other shocking devices, ankuses, sticks, axe handles, baseball bats, metal pipes, and other tools.
The Englehart incarnation of bats is one that is plausible to have a successor for. Review: Captain America - Reborn #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Jonah was a good batsman, which made up for his lack of ability with the bat, preferring to field at mid-off.
In that very first innings of the series four batsmen scored 203 runs and the rest crumbled for just 67.
Rhinos, elephants, and other ungulates flehmen regularly; so do bats and cats, which have their own species variations. INSIDE OF A DOG
Navy commandoes slid down to the vessel one by one, yet then the unexpected occurred: The passengers that awaited them on the deck pulled out bats, clubs, and slingshots with glass marbles, assaulting each soldier as he disembarked. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
This technique is quite different from the prey detection style usually employed by vesper bats: a technique suited for short-range prey that are detected in cluttered habitats. Archive 2006-06-01
The school was one of four to win a set of equipment, including bats, pads, gloves, balls and stumps as well as a scorebook, rule book and kit bag.
Raccoon removal squirrel control Fredericksburg, Stafford, Virginia, and wildlife snake Skunk Valley pest control services experts bats, squirrels, mice, and remove the raccoons.
The position of bats in the eutherian tree is uncertain.
The company will have to do much better than this, if it is to avoid brickbats and lawsuits in the future.
These prizes should be Hallow-e'en souvenirs, such as emery cushions of silk representing tomatoes, radishes, apples, pears, pickles; or pen-wipers representing brooms, bats, cats, witches, etc. CANDLE AND APPLE Games For All Occasions
Presently it is the abode of wild pigeons, bats, goats, dogs, pigs etc.
Sunday evening television is watched exclusively by fools, cranks and gibbering dingbats.
In all he fought 257 combats at Verdun, most of them against heavy odds, and shot down eleven planes.
But what happens should a batsman in the present Test squad suffer injury? Times, Sunday Times
Australian tradition whereby leading bowler "outs" English batsman he intends to install as personal whipping boy usually captain, star man, or chief posho. The Ashes 2010 A-Z: baggy greens, doing a Harmy and lucky red hankies
While this lengthy retrieval process was being effected, the batsmen were trotting up and down at their leisure to compile the 47 runs necessary for victory. Great Sporting Failures
His control of length was awry and Australia's batsmen snuffed out his threat effectively. Times, Sunday Times
Bats are the only mammals to have wings and to achieve sustained flight.
Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
Birds, bees, butterflies, bugs, bats, native plants and night-scented flowers have all figured in my postbag in recent weeks.
An alternative explanation might be a lack of predatory birds and bats. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Lugo projects to have good at-bats against left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales because Lugo is a good high ball hitter and Morales tends to make most of his mistakes up in the strike zone. Scout's take: Boston Red Sox lineup analysis
The circus acrobats perform amazing feats on the trapeze.
Whether he knew it, he was on course for a historic achievement, becoming only the seventh batsmen in Test cricket to score centuries both on their first appearance at home and on their debut abroad.
He's a very aggressive bowler -- he always bowls the ball straight at the batsman's body.
The batsmen were also helped by some wayward bowling with 61 extras, including 40 wides, being conceded.
Because they favor smaller barrels, their bats are made from a heavier billet - the cylindrical piece of wood from which a bat is shaped.
Fifteen species of neotropical and three species of Paleotropical bats are known either to roost. in or to make tents in over 80 species of vascular plants.
Both were, of course, memorable events which used spectacular fireworks, acrobats, singers, dancers and musicians to showcase the city to the world.
When they started working on the case, not only did they find clear-cut Batson violations—a former prosecutor who worked in the DA’s office around the time of Bo’s trial would later testify that the philosophy of his office was, in his own words, “that prospective black jurors at that time were antipolice, antiestablishment, and should not be left on juries”—but they also turned up significant evidence that Bo was innocent of murder. Living Justice
A left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Tindill's international cricket career spanned nearly a decade, either side of World War Two in which he served as a member of the NZEF. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The brief hiatus from Test cricket hasn't added too much zest to his bowling, but it seems to have revitalised Javagal Srinath the batsman.
Then I hightailed across town to see ‘King of Stains’ at Bats, where Gibby played the most unlikeable character ever, and so well!
She always wore combats, which were more fashionable than jeans.
The bowler bowled, the batsman, instead of backing further away, wafted at the ball, which looped up towards mid-off, who, miraculously, caught it. Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching
Here on Boing Boing, you'll see that terms like "bukkake" and "anal" rank disproportionately high in our stat logs, relative to the number of times we actually use them in our posts (bats eyelashes innocently). Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
The legside is the side of the field to the left of a right handed batsman and the right of a left handed batsman. English to English translation needed
But at his best he was also capable of delivering among the most clinical yorkers in the game, the ball arrowing in toward the batsman's toes, often leaving them sprawled on the floor as they jabbed their bat futilely at the ground as the stumps cartwheeled behind them. The Paradox of Shoaib Akhtar
You stand in the way of a swarm of bats and you can expect to get horsewhipped to tarnation, boy!
I sat on the boundary waiting for the bus, watching the batsmen slowly lolloping from one end of the pitch to the other.
Meanwhile, inside the Grand Hyatt's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of our language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate, according to The Associated Press. Moultrie Observer Homepage
Then we'd be able to hold big gymnastics festivals where masses of gymnasts and acrobats would perform.
The Indians should target the first four batsmen and keep the pressure on the rest of the batting.
The sides of these little sarcophagi are covered with _bassi-rilievi_, many of them finely executed: the subjects are combats and that favorite theme the boar-hunt of Kalydon; there was one which represented the sacrifice of a child. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
At .23 when you toss the cat toy by him and he gives it a few token bats with his paw while still reclining is hilarious. Winston isn't normal
Two thugs clubbed him with baseball bats.
Visitors to the Aquarium of the Lakes will be able to discover all about the secret world of otters, bats, water voles and shrews as part of Wildlife Activity Week which runs until Sunday, February 22.
Other attractions at the circus include clowns, acrobats, wire-walkers, trapeze artists, an equestrian display and jugglers.
He pitched the ball too short and the batsman hit it for six.
Supplementing his batsmanship is the ability to take key wickets.
Hats, bats and wands were created in the art department, while ghoulish recipes were cooked up in the kitchen.
Otherwise, the batsman ducked safely on a slow pitch and was rarely subdued for long. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to worrying about history and horses, both of which seem inextricably linked to the king, we also have to worry about bats. Times, Sunday Times
She found the real thing boring because she was too small or struggled with cumbersome bats and rackets. The Sun
Both are batsmen of skill and determination, and their reputations are at stake.
That way they know the streets will in the none to distance future, be safe for them and their loved ones, and they can go back to throwing brick bats from the side lines about nasty right wing authoritarin Police Forces, schools, courts, and Prisons. Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Personally, i like Papi in the Clean up role ... youk hitting third .... no one to pitch around and get some nice at bats for Pedroia and Youk. Sports News : CBSSports.com
As dusk fell, bats began to fly between the trees.
Moths form at least 90 per cent of the diet of barbastelle and grey long-eared bats. Times, Sunday Times
Others on the move include bats, which have taken to using canals as a seasonal corridor in the warmth, according to a report from British Waterways, and thousands of browntail moth caterpillars, which have spun sticky canopies of cocoons on Canvey island, in Essex, to pupate earlier than usual. The Guardian World News
Morally, there's no difference between a batsman who chooses to stay, knowing that he is out, and a wicketkeeper who appeals against a batsman knowing he isn't.
It will not please England, though, that two of his wickets, both front-line batsmen, were culpable.
The batsmen ran four as Lewis floundered to the boundary to make amends, but the game was up.
The storm destroyed many of the blossoms and rain forest fruits that flying foxes eat, forcing the bats to alter their normally nocturnal habits.
Usually a batsman who plays his shots, he kept them firmly in the locker as he shared two significant partnerships that rebuilt the innings.
Most bats emit sonar at ultrasonic frequencies around 20-60 kilohertz (humans hear up to 20 kHz), and this is the range at which hearing moths are most sensitive!
Instead, the bowlers bowled a few wides and no-balls, in addition to the batsmen being lucky with a few edges.
To retain four uncapped spinners could be regarded as unnecessary and Ellison may already have been considered surplus to requirements along with Ripon-born opening batsman John Inglis and reserve wicketkeeper Matthew Thewlis.
Small and furry, bats are the only mammals to have achieved powered flight.
I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
The ace card of a mystery spinner is that batsmen are not used to him. Times, Sunday Times
The main species threatened by hunting are the tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), fruit bats (Pteropus rufus and Eidolon helvum), and the red-fronted brown lemur. Madagascar succulent woodlands
Bats can be observed emerging from their lair every evening at sunset between mid-March and November.
Australia bowler Brett Lee dives to catch England batsman Andrew Strauss for 37.
The mammal species that are present include goats, foxes, anteaters, rabbits and bats, while the birds are hawks, partridges, daras, pigeons, troupials and a type of cardinal.
But can a batsman be really sure when his eyesight has gone or when his reactions have slowed just enough to bring him back to mortality? Times, Sunday Times
The word exuberance has appeared in 250 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct. 9 in the Bats blog post "Cardinals Take On the Beast" by Pat Borzi: NYT > Home Page
Over her new narrative the kehua hang unseen, 'folding and unfolding their shadowy wings like fruitbats'. Times, Sunday Times
Once they score a ton the best batsmen take a fresh guard and press on remorselessly towards a double century. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
And he is only one of four batsmen ever to score centuries in four consecutive innings, in 2002.
The acrobats stacked themselves up.
Like Republicans, those who conceive and give birth to these movies are willing to do whatever it takes to sell them to a country of dingbats.
Rather than detecting reflected light waves to see objects, bats send out ultrasound waves and use the reflected sound to work out where things are. Smithsonian Mag
For example, echolocation by bats and toothed whales is dependent on the sound transmission properties of air and water that can change with temperature or density.
Cricket usually grants a batsman his curtain call at the end of his innings. Times, Sunday Times
The play itself begins at 8: 30 p.m., but the spectacle begins at 7: 30 with a team of acrobats performing death-defying feats.
They were carrying bits of wood and what looked like bats. The Sun
June 24th, 2006 at 1: 46 am moonbat patrol says: so now Donald trump is a military expert?? well he as it least is in “good” company. right up there with Streisand, the ditzy chicks, helen thomas, susan sarandon and other moonbats. good job trumpus, i guess all that money can’t buy intelligence or patriotism. Think Progress » Donald Trump on Iraq.
Amateur fossil hunters have helped to uncover the oldest known ancestor to kangaroos, koalas, possums, and wombats.
The batsmen are set for a less stressful few weeks, with Ponting encouraging them to put their feet up.
Umpires have responsibility only for ensuring that batsmen wear helmets, not that the make conforms to the new standards. Times, Sunday Times
Gongs and brickbats: some parts of the park are a strange mix of super-high-tech rides and rather tawdry fairground stalls, complete with hustling barkers.
The revelation was made all the more remarkable by its tim ing: only a few years after Donald Griffin astonished the scientific community in 1958 with his revelation that bats "see" the world with their ears. The Fittest Books On Animal Survival
The early Eocene is important for another reason: many orders of fossil mammals (especially primates, perissodactyls, artiodactyls, rabbits, whales, and bats) make their first appearances in the fossil record.
Twice Flandry lay prone and watched combats: bugs swarming over a walking red globe with lobsterish claws; a constrictor shape entangled with a mobile battering ram. A Circus of Hells
Mithali Raj is the best batswoman in the world right now. Rediff.com
There is also the Delmas hot air burner, in which the batswing flame is completely inclosed in a glass, mounted with a sheet-iron casing, heated by the products of combustion, through which the air passes on its passage downward to feed the flame; and it thus increases the temperature, improves the illuminating power, and produces a beautiful steady light. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
For most batsmen, rhythm and momentum stems from familiar and consistent preball movements. Times, Sunday Times
Flintoff spotted Ganguly charging down the pitch and dropped it short only for the batsman to carve the ball deep into the crowd.
Most of their batsmen are still struggling to cope with the New Zealand pace attack.
The Pakistani batsmen are in a habit of playing at balls swinging away from the body.
And sorry about the "goddamit," but that particular misusage popped up out of nowhere on cable news during the primaries and its been driving me batshit crazy. Obama Reiterates: Combat Troops Out Of Iraq In 16 Months
Even then the gloom was such that the scoreboard shone like Piccadilly Circus on a wet night while both batsmen and fielders needed radar to sight the ball.
Adams, the 33-year-old Jamaican batsman, deserved better than this undignified end to his reign.
Like most insectivorous bats, the New Zealand short-tailed bat hunts insects in the air by using echolocation.
He had 25 hits in his first 67 at-bats and was errorless in 15 starts (14 at second base, one at shortstop).
The hazards facing them include snakes, poisonous fish and fruit, reef sharks, moray eels, stingrays, fire coral, mosquitoes, bats, fire ants, rats and wild pigs.
Some woman who bats him over the head with a rolling pin.
It is no different from a batsman in cricket facing the wicketkeeper while the bowler is already running in to bowl. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost.
Who was the best batsman you bowled at? Times, Sunday Times
The team counted nearly 800 bats in the mine, fairly small as hibernacula go. Canada.com
The talented threesome are acrobats, jugglers, clowns and illusionists, all rolled into one.
He has played well in high-pressure games as a batsman. Times, Sunday Times
A group of 98 baby fruits bats, known as spectacled flying foxes The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
These bats use low wing loadings and low aspect ratios to practice slow, manoeuvrable flight as they glean for mostly terrestrial prey in cluttered habitats. Archive 2006-06-01
The following day, the Batsford forester returned to cut down the tree.
The burners should be union jets -- _i.e. _, burners with two holes at an angle to each other -- not slit or batswing, as the latter are extremely liable to partial stoppage with dust. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
Seems a batsman in the match was from somewhere on the subcontinent.
In the upper corner appears a camera view from combats occurring around the board.
The jerky flight of the pipistrelle gave rise to the ancient name for bats - the flittermouse.
It'll force the batsmen to use their bats more, while the spinners will be rewarded, deservedly, for foxing the batsmen.
In all, 4 species of insectivora, 4 bats, 5 lagomorphs, 32 rodents, 18 carnivores, 9 artiodactyla, 5 lizards and 3 snakes are recorded in the Tuvan reserves, among them 22 locally rare species of mammal. 41 species of mammal are recorded for the Mongolian portion. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
Suffice to say that he answered as an opening batsman rather than a neutral. Times, Sunday Times
I was 15, going over to a homeboy's house, and these dudes were running toward us with bats and chains.
Because these folks are batsh1t crazy and I can envision a serious rise in billable hours over the next 4 years. Alaska Squeaker - Swampland - TIME.com
Both batsmen got in some early practice, taking advantage of friendly bowling from the PCA XI and a fast outfield.
They who hooted at my Eagle, eyes of bats and heads of owls! The Voyage of Magellan
Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
Bill-O's analysis is battier than all the bats that were found in an Army medical facility in White City, Oregon. O'Reilly Doesn't Give a Bat's Ass About Walter Reed Scandal
Going by statistics we see that he is among the Indian batsmen to score centuries in both the innings.
If the batsman likes quick bowling, bowl it slower. Times, Sunday Times
Not only was he a commanding batsman, but was an outstanding fielder.
Or is asking for a specific clear statement too "batshit" for everyone? Trippi, Edwards Campaign Respond To Adviser Who Slammed Blogosphere
In 1934 he made his Warwickshire debut, and quickly caught the eye as a hard-hitting middle-order batsman.
[quote = "eejit"] in my smock ive got trauma kit top left, compass and maglite top right, matches/lighter in chest. the rest left empty. (notepad, pens etc in combats.) Army Rumour Service
Thus, lift forces exerted on the hindlimbs may explain why bats inspire during the downstroke of their wings and expire during the upstroke.
The Civic Trust will submit its "Southbank Torrens" plan to the State Government and Adelaide City Council after launching the plan at its annual Brickbats and Bouquets awards for urban development yesterday. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet rays, and bats and porpoises can hear sounds two octaves beyond our range.
Is he a genuine all-rounder or a bowler who bats? Times, Sunday Times
Cropped trousers and narrow legged combats will be preferred over shorts and Bermudas as more suitable summer town wear.
Hard compound rubber combats wear but reduces grip, which in turn generates wheelspin and therefore more wear.
There have long been restrictions on the width and length of cricket bats, but modern bats have grown exponentially, especially in the depth of the edges. Times, Sunday Times
In three at-bats he hit into two double plays and one triple play to account for seven outs.
This is why simply inserting fiberglass insulation bats will dampen the sound transmission somewhat but not eliminate it.
In bats and birds in air, lift is generated by the upstroke at high flight speeds, but not at low speeds.
Our path is frequently obstructed by various cave things like stalactites, stalagmites, and blind butterbats.
Napah Virus, a severe respiratory disease that Malaysian farmers caught from their swine, originated in bats.
And yet he played successfully as a batsman and a wicketkeeper for four more years. Times, Sunday Times
Depending on the type of game, we used wood or plastic bats.
All it took was a stare and a crook of the eyebrow from any one of the quartet of West Indian quicks in those days for the batsmen to know that a bowler was upset.
He bats them around, knocks them to the floor, and usually leaves them alone.
The umpire ruled that the batsman was out.
The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
Pollock bowled the first ball of the innings to Trescothick, it went near the bat, the batsman's led, the batsman's forearm and there were a couple of noises.
These bats are primarily insectivorous, and most hawk insects in flight, often using their wings like tennis rackets and swatting the insects into the tail membrane.
Don't say that to anyone else or they'll think you've got bats in the belfry. THE BLACK OPAL
Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers.
Who was the best left-handed batsman you saw? Times, Sunday Times
It also said that poor pitches will also include batsmen-friendly 'featherbed' surfaces that the ICC considers a serious threat to the game. The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
And cricket bats that emit a loud and piercing whistle to keep the crowd awake. Times, Sunday Times
I used to rely on watching good batsmen and try and mould myself accordingly.
Back on topic though, I think a search party should be sent out to find this wonderful anonymous Japanese person whio has newly and conveniently imparted truthiness and lightheadedness to Batshit Michelle. Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment
But he takes more wickets because he psyches batsmen out.

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