Sentences with phrase «to bat around»

On the web, they come together to laugh and bat around ideas.

Its design randomly releases treats or pellets as your cat bat it around playing with it or pushing it with the nose for a delicious reward.

At one point in his stage, there is a ladder with many bats around.

You can also buy a toy that releases kibble when a playful paw bats it around; leave it in a spot where your kitty will find it after a little searching.

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.

So, without context, «desire,» «flexibility,» «creativity» were meaningless abstractions, the kind of jargon batted around by self - help gurus.

A contentious topic that we've often seen batted around in policy circles and scientific forums over the past few months has concerned the long - term viability of biofuels — namely, is the trade - off inherent in converting ever larger tracts of forest to

Some cats will love batting it around on the smooth surface.

The thread got batted around for a week or so, and dropped off the Forums map, until this past weekend, when the old thread got new life with some opinions about which CFLs are the best bet for light quality, light quantity, non-flickering and non-buzzing.

Films like Battle of the Sexes and I, Tonya have long been batted around as potential conversation starters, as have films like Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous gay coming - of - age adaptation of the André Aciman novel.

Several ideas batted around at the RootsCamp discussion did end up in Jerome's PDF article, though, for instance the importance of looking for inspiration at what's happening NOW across the Internet rather than at what worked in the last campaign (two years can be an eternity in online time).

As you clean out your medicine cabinets and drawers, please remember that many pets often find pills tasty little treats (dogs) or toys to bat around on the floor and then ingest (cats).

You can also let kitties bat them around.

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.

In the third deck, a group bats around a beach ball, eventually knocking it to the cheering...

«A lot of people go a long time being batted around from specialist to specialist and get a whole battery of tests.»

If you're not batting around 700 in the credit score game, you may not be eligible for a «zero - percent transfer» card.

something to play with when they fall on the floor, to be batted around then forgotten, leaving a surprise puddle to step in with stocking feet!

While ping - pong is the national pastime of prosperous businesses — a place where employees can bat around balls and ideas — at Power Design, it's a bit more competitive.

News reports are always batting around some new bit of bad research.

As of mid-August the Sooners were batting around several ideas for honoring Box.

For what seems like ages, Snyder and writers David S. Goyer and Chris Terrio bat around big ideas like the ever - evolving nature of homeland security and, most predominantly, the fraught relationship between man and god.

I think the main problem with all of this is discoverability, and we've also batted this around with comiXology.

With his new club Dave hit 14 homers and is batting around.285.

The media batted around innuendos of drug use — rumors that reached Shula, who checked them out with Fazio before the draft.

It's been a proposal batted around for decades.

Danny Boyle and Yann Demange's names were batted around last month, but with insiders informing Variety that MGM is looking for a «big name» to helm the new chapter, the Steve...

When that moment arrives, over the course of several awkwardly funny confrontations at the Chernus» character's palatial upstate home, «Mistress America» reaches the apex of its appeal: Most of the narrative revolves around neurotic characters in close proximity batting around zany dialogue that constantly hits its mark.

The film indulges in the intellectual rap session with both fascinated attention and wry humor: it is, after all, the pretentious proclamations and justifications of two privileged men batting around the meaning of life in a restaurant where most folks couldn't afford to buy dessert.

Showing up announced, Isaac's smiling Bud Cooper corners Margaret (Julianne Moore) about the fishy details surrounding her twin sister's death — a conversation that gradually ramps up from phony politeness to outright accusation, as Cooper bats around his guilty target like a cat playing with a mouse.

You can bat around contenders for the «most beautiful electric car» all day, but if you ask us, there's only one car deserving of that title, and it's the new Jaguar E-Type Zero.

Every year, new terminology is batted around major conventions.

One of the many notions batted around in this philosophical novel is the idea of the «storyless story,» a tale that refuses to follow the traditional narrative structure, and Our Tragic Universe can definitely be read as such.

For a helping hand or a second opinion, there's the TradeStation Trader Wiki (for tips and how - tos from other users) and discussion forums where customers can mingle with a community of similarly committed investors and bat around trading strategies and investment ideas.

There's still little agreement on what caused the May 6 market meltdown, but the experience has a few lessons for small investors, whose fortunes were batted around along with the investments of major Wall Street players.

Toys that have food kibble spill out of them when batted around, or pulled apart help the pet to have more physical and mental activity.

She is friendly and playful and enjoys batting around her cat toys.

Ferrets bat them around and pull them off to drag to their hidey - hole, frequently breaking them in the process.

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?

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.

Her creatures of choice may seem soft and playful — little white kittens batting around a maraschino cherry, say — but inside every house cat dwells an untamed beast, all the more potent for its containment.

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

Before I share the opinions and theories batting around the blogosphere, I'll share a fact - checking angle on this story provided via Declan McCullagh's FAQ on the subject (hat - tip to Daniel Solove of PrawfsBlawg for the recommendation):

This week, panelists batted around serious topics such as recent teachers in the news for mocking the military and -LSB-...]

Commission splits, increased costs, shrinking margins, recruiting and competition were batted around during the presentations and Q & A. Risk was the elephant in the room no one talked about — perhaps because those already in the game take it for granted.

You may have helped clients bat around ideas for a kitchen remodel, but Dr. Ruth Shahack - Gross isn't going to listen to your advice: The kitchen she's working with is 300,000 years old.