How to Use line out in a Sentence

line out

verb
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  • So will there be lines out the door and supply shortages?
    — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Carlson gets Tow to line out to left field on the first pitch of the inning.
    — Tom Green, AL.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Odor walked and was at first base when Elvis Andrus lined out to right field.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Mulholland allowed a leadoff single in the ninth, but then got a fly out, a line out and a strikeout to end the game.
    — Joel Odom, OregonLive.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • And the centerpin reel is designed to play line out with the friction-free ease of a puck sliding over an air-hockey table.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
  • But Mikie Mahtook lined out to center and Jose Iglesias flied out to right.
    — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Then Mikie Mahtook lined out to center and Jose Iglesias flied out to right.
    — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018
  • After lining out to left in his first at-bat, Sogard collected a single and two doubles.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Over the decades since, the company chiseled new rail lines out of impassable terrain and swallowed up its competitors.
    — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • During the charge, the judge lines out exactly what the jury must find the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt to find the defendant guilty of each charge.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024
  • However, with two runners on second and third for Queen Creek, a line out to third-base allowed for an unassisted double to end the game.
    — Jorge Ramos, azcentral, 30 Mar. 2018
  • On Lancaster Avenue, Kelly’s Taproom was also filled to the rafters, with a line out the door and down the block that formed three hours before tipoff.
    — Erin McCarthy, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • With some Commuter Rail lines out of North Station operating on backup power, please allow extra time.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • There is one rail line in and one line out of the plant.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • On the right side of the field, four players were lined out wide.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Kemp says there’s a line out the door when her school’s food pantry opens.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • On Wednesday there was a line out the door for Club Cool.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Freestyle Poké often has a line out the door at lunchtime.
    — Sarah Gish, kansascity, 2 July 2018
  • That brought up Hamilton again, who lined out to left to end the game.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • This metro phoenix club has a line out the door every night.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The lines out the door were years quietly in the making.
    — Carlos Frías, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • On the still-quiet streets of Soho, the Dior Men shop is the one of the very few with a line out the door.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Witt swung at a first-pitch fastball and lined out to right field.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023
  • Hess struck out Evan Lee and forced Jared Gates to line out to left field to escape the jam.
    — Brody Miller, NOLA.com, 4 May 2018
  • Brings was fishing from the beach and had two lines out when the tarpon struck.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But White got Fernando Tatis Jr. to line out to right to end the threat.
    — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
  • At noontime on a recent day, there was a line out the door.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Cron lined out to short, shattering his bat in the process.
    — Michelle Gardner, azcentral, 5 June 2019
  • But Nick Maton flew out and Jake Rogers lined out to strand him.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The kids had used masking tape to line out a path on the classroom floor and littered it with pipe cleaners and blocks to act as obstacles.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024

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