Sentences with phrase «size of the bat»

When you take this bat out to the field and let it swing, that gap is meant to extend the size of the bat's sweet spot.

Yet the overall size of the bat's genome had remained relatively small in comparison to other mammals, suggesting that while transposons added new DNA, old DNA must have been removed somehow.

Cut several sizes of bats from black poster board or plain black cardstock.

Not exact matches

Additionally, Ethan Harris, chief US economist at Bank of America Merril Lynch, noted a BAT may not even decrease the size of the trade imbalance.

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

I'd wear hand - me - down athletic clothes from a cousin (always two sizes too big), suit up in all of the pertinent equipment (hockey goalie being the favorite), appropriate some of my parents» garden equipment to make goals, sticks, or bats, and then do battle (most often in a recognizably mediocre fashion).

This is the perfect time of year to make it... when zucchini the size of baseball bats are growing in your garden... because you can never, NEVER have too much of this.

i also chose to use leeks in place of sweet onions mostly because i bought 3 leeks the size of baseball bats and needed to use them in something, but also because they're a perfect segue to spring!

Needless to say we are struggling with picking the zucchini before it grows to the size of a baseball bat.

In my own mind, park size and batting last do not compare to a crowd going bonkers and confusing the heck out of a visiting offense.

And he requested that we make the bat bag big enough so that when he plays in the major leagues (notice the use of «when,» not «if»... love that), it will still hold a larger size bat for him.

I saw a woman gate check one of the full - sized (massive) double jogging strollers once, and JetBlue didn't bat an eye.

Cut a layer of interlining and batting fabric of the same shape and size as the two pieces of the fabric used to make the pillow.

The best men's softball bats come in all different shapes and sizes, but our reviewers became fans of the SB5 Mens Wood Softball Bat for a few reasons.

Athletes who had a good night at bat overestimated the size of the ball, whereas those who kept missing underestimated the ball's size.

Size - This softball bats review includes lots of details for the avid athlete, and we start out with the basic stats: softball bat length, and weight.

But sizing up how sensitive the snout of, say, a seal is compared with a bat or human isn't straightforward.

Some of these accelerated regions of evolution may impart the recognizable traits we attribute to each species, like the wings of a bat, the massive body size of the elephant and the unique coloring of the thirteen - lined ground squirrel.

They also have a bigger brain, relative to their size, than most other species of bats.

To give you an idea of the size of a fruit bat, it weighs roughly 30 grams and a single fully extended wing is about 17 x 9 cm in length, according to Tafti.

Teeth and bones of the extinct bat — which was about three times the size of an average bat today — were recovered from 19 to 16 - million - year - old sediments near the town of St Bathans in Central Otago on the South Island.

Breuer and Swartz found that bats are some of the nimblest airborne animals around and, given their size, far more maneuverable than birds or insects.

«The current recovery plan doesn't recognize that there are two distinct taxa on the islands; therefore, monitoring of population size and habitat use that treats all Hawaiian bats as a single unit is likely providing measures that are overestimated and not accurate for either taxon.»

Laser pulses shined into the vapor exposed the size and speed of vortices swirling around the bats» wings, which in turn revealed the forces they produced [see image at right].

It is home to a group of small, fruit - eating bats ranging from half - an - ounce to three ounces in size.

However, in 1913 and 1914, more finds were made at Piltdown, including a canine tooth intermediate in size between that of apes and humans, and a unique carved artifact made from a large piece of elephant bone that because of its shape became known as the «cricket bat».

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Right off the bat there are a few things Eva doesn't like about Albert - like the size of his girth.

Some other test prep companies manage the size of the books so students aren't overwhelmed right off the bat.

I won't bat an eyelid if I never see the place again.The damage is cosmetic, so we join the golf - cart - sized road once again, and I pucker up for what will be the most unpleasant fifteen miles of driving in my life.

I helped a friend move out of her dorm room and we flipped the seats down — through handy, side - mounted levers the approximate size of cricket bats — and managed to cram in an entire college student's net worth of blankets, sundresses, pens, backpacks, and overpriced textbooks.

The canyons, dry wash rivers, sandy creek beds, ditches, and gullies that joined up with the Cap Rock cliff form the graveyard of past Indian civilizations, flying and testing grounds of herds of leather - winged bats, drying grounds of monster - size bones and teeth, roosting, nesting, and the breeding place of the bald - headed big brown eagle.

But that soon changes as she hears from her neighbors about the bats the size of blankets, the rainbow people, and even the monster that once terrorized the island.

Judging by his smaller size and bat - like ears, most think that the French Bulldog actually arose from the toy or miniature Bulldog, which originated in Nottinham, England, where he was used as a ratter in the shops of laceworkers.

Reproduction Winter hibernation colonies are comprised of males and females and range in size from a few individuals to several hundred bats.

I had to remind myself not to play it in front of my kids, as it's really not appropriate to run around with an adult toy the size of a baseball bat clubbing people to death — but that's the type of gameplay you can expect.

When the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One both launched with 500 GB hard - drives, many gamers knew right off the bat that 500 GB wouldn't last long; the size of games these days is usually in the 35 to 50 GB range, with even most disc - based gamed having a mandatory install.

You'll get a cricket bat, yo - yo, a sort of Nerf gun and other goodies as you take on the game's six nicely - sized dungeons and a somewhat dangerous overworld packed with local wildlife out to gnaw or peck you to death.

Two fascinating videos included in the show (one made by Suh's son Doh - ho Suh, an artist who is better - known in this country than his father), showed Suh at work in his Seoul studio, sometimes wielding baseball bat - sized bamboo brushes to apply strokes to large sheets of paper laying on the floor.»

Each slot should be about the same size as the base of each bat wing.

Materials needed are boards of different sizes, yard batting, thick cardboard, foam and slip cover (yard decorator fabric).

I then used spray adhesive to attach the 3 ″ thick upholstery foam (also cut to the size of the top of the coffee table) and then covered the entire piece with quilt batting and stapled it into place.