as in to throw
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
he lightly lobbed the errant ball over the fence to the waiting schoolboy
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Recent Examples of lob
Purdy rolled right and lobbed a 4-yard touchdown pass that Jake Tonges miraculously snagged with 1 ½ minutes remaining.
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
Electricity and water usage are typically the first criticisms lobbed at data centers, and both have dominated discussions in Georgia.
—Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
Kelly's Golden Globes rant follows a string of criticisms the conservative personality has lobbed in recent weeks.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Jan. 2026
Defensive ends Montez Sweat and Austin Booker applied some pressure, and Loved lobbed an incomplete pass.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
Electricity and water usage are typically the first criticisms lobbed at data centers, and both have dominated discussions in Georgia.
—Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
Kelly's Golden Globes rant follows a string of criticisms the conservative personality has lobbed in recent weeks.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Jan. 2026
Defensive ends Montez Sweat and Austin Booker applied some pressure, and Loved lobbed an incomplete pass.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lob
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Most of them have come under pressure while throwing, which means that Maye, his offensive line and McDaniels probably need to time his drops better.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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McIntyre threw Fatu threw a table and then picked up Rhodes, slamming him into another table with a massive powerbomb.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Even searches for ethnic slurs hurled at Danish people — language that has historically crept into the American lexicon to dehumanize wartime enemies — come up thin.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Williams rolled to his left, leaped in the air and hurled the ball downfield, all in one motion — and completed a 27-yard pass.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
18 Jan. 2026
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Someone off camera then tossed him that actual T-shirt.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
8 Jan. 2026
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Failing to get a criminal conviction tossed and again complaining about the conditions at Rikers Island, Weinstein wants to begin negotiations with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office ahead of his upcoming trial, his lawyer said during a hearing Thursday.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
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In the cavernous, warehouse-like space, the boys turn into physical exhibitionists, showing off for one another by hoisting heavy chunks of scrap metal and flinging them across the ruin.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Most were immigrants from poor backgrounds, born in the Russian Empire between 1870 and 1910 and flung across the Atlantic as children or adolescents.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Lob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lob. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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