Examples of “softball” in a Sentence

noun A team sport similar to baseball, played with a larger, softer ball.

• This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time. — Andrew Heller, Come Heller High Water (1996)
• She plays softball for her college team.
• Our village team trains every Tuesday evening on the softball field.
• Softball is popular at the school because the ball is easier to catch.

noun An easy question or issue, posed so as not to challenge someone.

• The interviewer only threw him softballs.
• The first question was a softball that she answered without any trouble.
• Reporters complained that the panel lobbed softballs instead of asking anything difficult.