Example Sentences

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Why shouldn’t their town square prioritize strolling couples and amateur oil painters and kids tossing softballs over parking meters and hatchbacks?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

But that doesn't appear to be her closing podcast strategy, evidenced in her choice to spend a straightforward hour with Shannon Sharpe tossing her policy softballs on "Club Shay Shay."

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2024

In fairness, Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch peppered Patterson with favorable softballs, some of which the attorney bafflingly whiffed.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2024

Tossed rings will clink and fall between bottles; guns will limply squirt water into the mouths of clowns; mushy softballs will knock over nothing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023

She’s carrying a basket of neon-yellow softballs to the Firebus.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone