Example Sentences

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Giving death notifications, some people will ball up in a corner and cry their guts out.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2012

After six more grinding winter months of war, will ball parks bloom in the spring again?

From Time Magazine Archive

Both English and French flags were flying over the town, and the inhabitants, lining the shore, greeted their visitors with a salute of musketry,—not wholly welcome, as the guns were charged will ball.

From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis

But we shall be in a hell of a fix if that goes on—it will "ball up" the binderies again.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Paine, Albert Bigelow