Sentences with phrase «by batting around»

Although, if left unsupervised, you can bet that your cat will most likely find a piece and make a mess by batting it around for awhile.

He surprised everyone by batting around.300.

Not exact matches

A few dish ideas are batted around by the chefs as they stare up into the leaves.

It's batted around by defenders and just barely hits the ground.

But under the rules all he can do is declare the runner out for being hit by a batted ball and put the hitter on first with a single... I hope I'm around when some real belligerent big league manager lets his boys try this dodge.

As with Viv Richards strolling out to bat without a helmet, or Muhammed Ali dancing around the ring with his arms by his sides, the message was clear.

It's also for the best for A-Rod, who had a decent enough start to the year outside of his batting average — his OPS was.705 on June 5 — but then saw everything else slip by the time mid-August rolled around.

The only slight negative I have about it is that even on the quieter setting the music is loud, and combined with the lights it could be slightly overstimulating (but you can easily solve this by not turning it on — it does seem like just as much fun to bat the toys around).

This bat species catches its prey by performing a midair somersault and closing its wings and tail around an insect it plans to eat.

Pseudoscorpion species around the world have been found stowing away aboard a variety of animals, and now A. vastus has been spotted travelling by bat in New Zealand (New Zealand Journal of Zoology, doi.org/833).

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

Kyle was always an athlete, setting the Pole Vault record in high school and earning a scholarship to college for his track and field prowess, and he brought that same athleticism to the gym — it was an awesome workout right off the bat, and he said he hadn't used free - weights in a workout for years because he owned a Bowflex, but it was hard to tell by watching him throw the weight around.

I also bought all the stuff to make a Chocolate Zucchini Cake before this huge Chocoholic craving passes, because it will pass, and then I'll have to wait an entire month before I'm motivated to make the cake that my dear mother used to make for us sometime around now, when we are inundated by baseball bat sized zucchinis.

Cumberbatch's name has been batted around by the media as a possible choice for Strange ever since talks with Joaquin Phoenix reportedly went south back in July.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, and written by Wentworth Miller (yes, of «Prison Break» fame), the film is one that is being batted around as a contender for Cannes and is one of the most anticipated films of the year, in any event.

This way he keeps the viewer — and possibly the director — genuinely off balance, shimmying up against a couple of massage parlor cuties (he's clobbered by a baseball bat, departing consciousness with a lovely goofball pratfall), sussing out Martin Short's smarmy Dr. Blatnoyd (letting Short run circles around the infield, the receptionist, and a nice pile of medical - grade cocaine), or playing telephone straight man to Jeannie Berlin's Aunt Reet, a Catskills gargoyle with killer timing: «Maybe you're better off with the Nazis.»

In the horror drama, she begins to unravel when she's batted around by newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis).

There's an obvious affection for the Friday the 13th and Halloween films being batted around here, and other trashy 1980s exploitation movies, but it's welded with the self - referential fourth - wall deflating nabe of David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer, with gags outnumbering the gore by an ample ratio.

An American everyman (Depp) is picked out of a crowd by the most beautiful woman on screen, followed by police and foreign agents (led by a ruthlessly obsessive Paul Bettany), targeted by international gangsters (under the command of vaguely Russian baddie Steven Berkoff) and batted around by opportunistic Italian cops.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Cricket Documentary Recounts Rise and Dominance of West Indian Team Superficially, cricket looks a lot like baseball, except the players use a flat bat, hit the ball on a bounce and don't bother to run around the bases.

Which of us hasn't been delighted by a tiny ball of fur with big eyes batting around a toy with its brothers and sisters?

Well, from a feline perspective, they are designed for batting around and playing with because they «respond» by moving.

Endless streams of old mopeds buzzing around our bus like bats, brick houses by the road, lines and squiggles all over the letters of its Romanized language.

What's unique is that this temple complex is built around a cave opening that is inhabited by hordes of bats, and its name translates to «Bat Cave».

There are acres upon acres of deep green paddy fields and at night the sound of the thundering surfing is only broken by the rustling of palm leaves and the odd clicking of bats as they feast o the many insects flying around.

The Standoff mode itself just in its raw form was pretty fun, but took a surprising turn for the entertaining when the level designers on the team batted it out of the park by placing all of the environmental hazards around the AIs, to make it so super thrilling to kill them in slow motion.

The Last Guardian centers around the journey shared by a young boy and a humongous beast resembling a cat - dog - bird - bat... thing named Trico.

Shooting isn't always the best course of action either, as noise attracts other members of the undead that are stumbling around within close proximity and, if at all possible, it's often in your best interest to take care of them individually, by viciously and repeatedly swinging a cricket bat into their already decomposed craniums.

Instead, the titular postman is attached to the equivalent of a giant white pinball, which can either be pushed around or batted about by paddles dotted around a gorgeous landscape; all bright colours and hand - painted details.

This is the 10th anniversary of the Serpentine's Marathon series, a once - a-year, 12 - hour event founded by the curator / art superstar Hans Ulrich Obrist, where artists (previous participants include Marina Abramović, Brian Eno, and Yoko Ono) bat around off - the wall ideas, perform, and engage with the (generally pretty rowdy) audience.

One interesting theme batted around by that group of late concerns the name of this climate - altering enterprise.

Rooftop gardens on bus depots and windmills at rail yards are just a couple of the ideas being batted around by a member

Instead, objectivity is obtain by sitting around and talking, batting your ideas with the community, voting.

These Stantec surveys are supposed to identify bird, bat and raptor usage in and around the North Ridge Wind Energy project, yet these surveys are designed to miss much of this species usage by breeding and migratory species.

Luckily, those bats are only likely to be in - flight around dawn and dusk at wind speeds between 2 and 5 meters per second — so Ecotricity and RSPB implemented a mitigation plan by which the turbine is shut off for half an hour before and after dusk, whenever wind speeds are below 7 meters per second.

Yesterday Aardvark blogged about the desecration of the D Day beaches by bird choppers and finished the post with, «Now if the area around the Normandy beaches were home to a threatened species of aquatic fruit bat then every NGO from Greenpeace to the WWF would be up in arms.»

The woman on Channel 16 had warned that this might be the last mild weekend for a long stretch, if not for the rest of the year, so come Saturday Rangel puttered around the yard, scratching the ground haphazardly in a way she called «raking,» unfurling the BBQ umbrella and then winding it down again and tying it off at the bottom against invasion by sleepy bats.