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Meanings of play ball in English

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Usage of play ball in English
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Source: Various Image: Pigeons play ball in a Skinner experiment on conditioning.
Wired
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Which of course led everybody to wonder if Apple would play ball.
Wired
3
We play ball and play tag in the wind to get warm.
Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915
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In a day packed with tradition, the animals refused to play ball.
The Irish Times
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The other big risk is that consumers stop wanting to play ball.
Reuters
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He doubts whether the Germans will ever be able to play ball.
The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and...
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So Davy and David went on the rear lot to play ball.
David Lockwin—The People's Idol
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Besides, it is very aristocratic to play ball among roses and dahlias.
Home as Found / Sequel to "Homeward Bound"
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To tell the truth, I never could play ball left-handed, anyway, Gertrude.
The Daughter of a Magnate
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We could neither play ball, nor run races, nor walk on stilts.
Louis Lambert
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I told them, don't screw around-youcan't play ball with broken fingers.
Wiseguy
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The EU has to play ball, said David Jones, a Brexit-supporting former minister.
Reuters
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We were to play ball out in the garden, he said.
Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915
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To-morrow we play ball, and I want to be in condition.
Frank Merriwell's Reward
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There is little sign that his EU partners are willing to play ball.
Reuters
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They wanted Gil to sing in certain clubs, and he wouldn't play ball.
The next to die
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