Example Sentences

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My whole body tingles with nerves and it feels like my tummy has balled itself into a knot.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

He'd spring the same old platitudes when I had reached his den: "That vampire who delivers goods has balled things up again."

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt

"Because the gum has balled to a certain extent already, while I see it oozes very slowly from the wound."

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

Skinner, that dog-barking navigator you put in that schooner while I was on my vacation has balled us up for fair.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)