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Example sentences for: inning

How can you use “inning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Pitcher Roger Clemens shut out the Braves into the eighth inning, leading the Yanks to a 4-1 win.
When you are in the field, more than 50 percent of that half of the inning is spent doing nothing: The pitcher is simply holding the ball.
Cutting back and forth between Costner as he pitches a perfect game and remembers his longtime girlfriend, director Sam "The Evil Dead " Raimi nails the baseball half of the film, but the romance is so awful that "you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Take a look at Kevin Costner's high-school yearbook page here.)
Killjoys pointed out that blacks own none of the league's teams, that the stadium failed to sell out, that the crowd was overwhelmingly white (as is usual at baseball games), and that nearly everyone left the game after the 5 th inning ceremony.