Thesaurus results for LOBBED

lobbed

verb

past tense of lob

as in threw

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 lobbed Tom Jordan lobbed a kickpass toward the right touchline but wing Kyle Steyn spilled it under pressure. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Criticism was also lobbed at the armor design in the movie, which many on social media felt resembled Batman’s more modern-looking Batsuit. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 July 2026 Compare that with three weeks ago, when Ukraine managed to shoot down 15 of the 19 Russian ballistic missiles lobbed at its capital. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 7 July 2026 The past few decades saw similar degrees of vitriol lobbed against the likes of Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. — Chelsey Sanchez, CNN Money, 25 June 2026 The president lobbed a bomb at lawmakers over his pick to lead national intelligence after bipartisan backlash. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 18 June 2026 The team saw a top-tier company name, skipped the standard technical rounds, lobbed a few softballs, and basically welcomed the candidate in. — Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2026 The federal agency lobbed the threat in letters to the Olathe, Shawnee Mission, Kansas City, Kansas, and Topeka school districts Thursday afternoon. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 Lampard’s non-goal England were 2-1 down to Germany in the last 16 of the 2010 World Cup, Lampard lobbed goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, the ball bounced off the underside of the bar and landed well behind the goal line. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 June 2026

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Cade Gibson, Calvin Faucher and Tyler Zuber combined to allow one run over three innings before Pete Fairbanks threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his 16th save.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026
Pete Fairbanks, the Marlins' fifth pitcher, threw just seven pitches while earning his 16th save with a perfect ninth.

— CBS News, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of threw

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While the violent mobs who hurled stones at marchers in 1966 are long gone, civil rights advocates say their demands remained strikingly familiar and that the threat to democracy has not disappeared.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Resinous pine cones can also ignite and be hurled hundreds of meters by wind, helping fire spread.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of hurled

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As Mars’s gravity slung the spacecraft onto the next leg of its journey, mission scientists used the opportunity to put its multispectral imager through a full dress rehearsal.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 21 July 2026
Luke Shaw broke into open space down the left just past the half-hour mark and slung in a cross intended for his striker, but Zirkzee was several steps behind the penalty spot when the ball was delivered, unable to attack it when he was needed most.

— Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of slung

Verb

The boundary between indoor and outdoor living is nearly erased as floor-to-ceiling glass windows and walls are flung open to redefine the term cross-breeze.

— Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
At least 15 Tigers groundskeepers joined a seventh-inning squirrel chase that spilled into right field, where the critter ran into Leody Taveras’ glove and was accidentally flung skyward.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026

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