Read full poem →What guards the purity of melting Maids,
In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,
Safe from the treach'rous friend, the daring spark,
Dictionary Entry
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
In a Sentence
“a ball of spittle; a fecal ball”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ballsballs twoballs golfballs cannonballs tennisballs billiard
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Poetry examples for “balls”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate.
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the Ring,
A vain, unquiet, glittering, wretched thing!
Read full poem →Then give one flirt, and all the vision flies.
Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls,
And leave you in lone woods, or empty walls!
Read full poem →What guards the purity of melting maids,
In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,
Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark,
Read full poem →Re: laborious ivories, caryed ivory balls, one within another ; bric-a-
rac.
Read full poem →And through it he sees a woman,
Tossing the water-balls.
Her breasts point outwards,
Read full poem →Go to church the world require you,
To balls the world require you too,
And marry papa and mamma desire you,
Read full poem →And the umpire’s voice was hoarse calling balls and
strikes and outs and the umpire’s throat fought in
Read full poem →Jack Dempsey threw his wrench to the floor. “I quit,” he said, “do any-
thing you want to me, I quit. Kill me. Cut my balls off. I quit.”
Read full poem →In a sky of lemon-dust down to the purple vastness.
On the dizzy crest of the bluff the balls of clover
Bow in the warm wind blowing across a meadow