Get to know Bunt better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like smut or hit.
Bunt in a sentence
Related words
Bunt meaning
- The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- A push or shove; a butt.
- A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
Synonyms of Bunt
Using Bunt
- The main meaning on this page is: The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | A push or shove; a butt. | A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- Useful related words include: smut, hit, stinking smut, smut fungus.
- In the example corpus, bunt often appears in combinations such as: sacrifice bunt, bunt single, bunt by.
Context around Bunt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bunt
- In this selection, "bunt" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sacrifice, scoring, placed, single, hit and sprints stand out and add context to how "bunt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sac bunt that increased and a sacrifice bunt. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bunt" sits close to words such as afterthought, avatars and basingstoke, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bunt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Carson Tew with a well-placed bunt, sprints to first. (10 words)
A chaotic sacrifice bunt in the eighth extended the TCU lead to 6-3. (14 words)
Another was thrown out in the fourth attempting to score on a squeeze bunt. (14 words)
Gannon Black launched an RBI double deep into left-center field to plate Hayden Griffin and stretch the lead to 2-0 and just a few pitches later, a sacrifice bunt by Devyn Ellis allowed Black to slide in safely from third and make it a 3-0 game. (49 words)
Lawrence County cooked up a two-out rally that saw them cut it to 5-3 on a bunt single, but the Lady Warriors added to their lead in the bottom of the sixth. (34 words)
After watching the recent College World Series, I have some advice for the coaches of these eight elite teams: Either teach your players how to bunt or eliminate bunting from your offensive strategy. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A sacrifice bunt by Cervola and a bunt single by junior Maggie Howard led to the first two runs.
A chaotic sacrifice bunt in the eighth extended the TCU lead to 6-3.
After watching the recent College World Series, I have some advice for the coaches of these eight elite teams: Either teach your players how to bunt or eliminate bunting from your offensive strategy.
Blanco tripled and scored to help the Royals tie it at 2 in the third, and had a run-scoring bunt hit to cap a five-run fourth.
Campbell ignited another scoring inning with an infield single, moving into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt.
Carson Tew with a well-placed bunt, sprints to first.
Gannon Black launched an RBI double deep into left-center field to plate Hayden Griffin and stretch the lead to 2-0 and just a few pitches later, a sacrifice bunt by Devyn Ellis allowed Black to slide in safely from third and make it a 3-0 game.
Greensburg Salem had two singles and a bunt to load the bases with two outs, but Yough starter James Shoman struck out senior Matt Scarpa to end the top half of the inning.
Katie Beth Yovino led off the inning with a single to center field, then a sacrifice bunt by Jones moved her over to third.
Lawrence County cooked up a two-out rally that saw them cut it to 5-3 on a bunt single, but the Lady Warriors added to their lead in the bottom of the sixth.
Noah Boser went 1-for-4, Aaron Weber had a sacrifice bunt and Matt Tautges and Lane Girtz both earned a walk.
Reanna Rudd then in the final run of the ballgame with a sac bunt that increased the lead to 5-0 with three outs to record.
Sandlin got hit by the pitch to lead off the inning, then Marsh reached on a bunt single.
Sentencing Bunt, magistrate Rana Daher told him "this offence strikes at the heart of community safety".
Shortstop Mitchell Daly advanced both runners with a sacrifice bunt, but first baseman Jared Thomas struck out for the second time on a slider from Smith, as did third baseman Jalin Flores.
Another was thrown out in the fourth attempting to score on a squeeze bunt.
Astros pitcher Parker Mushinski then threw the ball away on an Austin Wells bunt that allowed the catcher to take second while Alex Verdugo scored to make it a 4-1 game.
Austin Peay State University returned in the ninth and opened with back-to-back singles by shortstop sacrifice bunt, Voitik tied the game with a sacrifice fly.
Both runners moved up on Jackson Merrill’s sacrifice bunt, and Profar scored by beating out Alexander’s throw home Luis Campusano’s grounder.
He displayed his speed with a bunt single in his first at-bat in blue.
Common combinations with bunt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sacrifice bunt 33×
- bunt single 21×
- bunt by 9×
- on bunt 9×
- bunt and 7×
- bunt to 6×
- bunt in 5×
- to bunt 5×
- squeeze bunt 5×
- with bunt 5×