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01. People often think of [bats] as blood-sucking monsters, but actually most [bats] just eat insects.

02. Don't throw the [bat] after you hit the ball; you might hurt someone.

03. Vampire [bats] adopt baby [bats] who have no parents, and have been known to risk their lives to share food with other [bats].

04. The American military attempted to train [bats] to carry small bombs during the Second World War.

05. A popular dish in the island nation of Samoa is baked [bat].

06. He got a nasty bang on the head with a baseball [bat] while playing at the park this morning.

07. His [batting] average is currently the best in the league.

08. The boys had a lot of [batting] practice yesterday, so hopefully we'll get a few hits in tomorrow's game.

09. She [batted] the fly away with a newspaper.

10. A [bat] needs to eat many times its own weight in insects every day.

11. The player curled his fingers around the baseball [bat], and stepped up to the plate.

12. At my son's baseball camp, they had a machine that pitched balls at the [batters] to help them practice hitting.

13. D. H. Lawrence described [bats] as "Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags and grinning in their sleep."

14. The next [batter] is Henry Foster, a good little player who has gotten a homerun in five of his last seven games.

15. James Weldon Johnson wrote, "So God stepped over to the edge of the world and He spat out the seven seas; He [batted] His eyes, and the lightnings flashed..."