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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lob.

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Examples

  • On the next play, Griffin lobbed a pass over defenders into the arms of Earnest Smith to go up 21-14 at the break.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Lalime stopped Saprykin's first shot, but Saprykin lobbed the loose puck over Lalime's shoulder.

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - Ottawa vs. Chicago 2006

  • Selfish is a word lobbed with amazing frequency at the 25-year-old Bryant.

    Kobe Off The Court 2007

  • Case shot slashed across the stream to burst in livid smoke, roundshot crashed through the ranks while shells lobbed from the short-barrelled howitzers fizzed to leave smoky trails arcing in the sky before cracking open in the columns 'hearts.

    Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

  • GDANSK, Poland (AP) - On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignit ...

    My Sinchew - 2009

  • GDANSK, Poland (AP) - On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignit ...

    My Sinchew - 2009

  • GDANSK, Poland (AP) - On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignit ...

    My Sinchew - 2009

  • Only the Giants, who were getting the fluke label lobbed their way before the season began, are holding up their end of the bargain.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2008

  • Russel Crowe gets a sword lobbed to him while he's on a horse in both Gladiator and this trailer.

    Another Awesome New Robin Hood Trailer to Kick off 2010! « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • But the fountain's 20 metre-wide trough, where Anita Ekberg famously waded in La Dolce Vita, is scheduled to have its water replaced in four days, after cleaners under police guard move in for their regular raking up of the thousands of coins lobbed in by tourists.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

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