1.   The headgear was so tight around the forehead that my brain began to ache, but the ear flaps dangled.

2.   Another time, I knocked a kid unconscious when a fastball clipped him just under his ear flap.

3.   But most hitters still use helmets with one or two ear flaps.

4.   Fortunately, Piazza was wearing a helmet with an ear flap.

5.   He depicted himself first with exaggerated ear flaps, tears streaming from his eyes and his mouth a downturned crescent.

6.   In the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses, people who wear hats with ear flaps are a major voting bloc.

7.   Its funky, brightly colored garments are memorable because of extras like animal ear flaps, angel wings, and a fat cartoonish character image named Blap.

8.   Lewis, who singled in his first two at-bats, was drilled on the left ear flap by a Wright fastball in the fifth inning.

9.   Left-handed reliever Brian Shouse was hit on the ear flap of his batting helmet by a pitch from Oakland left-hander Mark Holzemer, but remained in the game.

10.   She had large red ear flaps to shield her from the noise, which is nothing like the loud report of gunpowder.