1. The children batted around the street.

2. It's just an idea we've been batting around.

3. The general manager has been batting around all day talking with every guest.

4. I was ready to bat around.

5. Then we bat around the design and development of the application framework, and provide one kind of methods for developing software systems by component.

6. Senators sit in big armchairs at mahogany desks and bat around millions of dollars.