Sentence examples similar to flub a play from inspiring English sources

On Saturday, in the Miami Marlins' victory over the playoff-bound Cincinnati Reds, Reyes made history on a simple ground ball by Drew Stubbs, flubbing a play he had made successfully thousands of times.

Outtakes in which actors flub lines, play private jokes, make mistakes or accidentally reveal too much of themselves are a staple of cast and crew parties at the end of a television season.

"John Gabriel Borlanan" isn't so much a play about a man who failed to become himself as it is a play about a man who took a great big chance become something far greater than himself‐and flubbed it.

If you flub a word or blurt something out without thinking, play it off with a laugh or a shrug.

They hammered the Baltimore Orioles in two games at Yankee Stadium May 11-12, but lost in extra innings on Mother's Day after tying the score in the bottom of the ninth inning; Jeter flubbed a potential double-play ball in that game.

Anyone who's recorded a five-second voicemail greeting knows how easy it is to flub a line.

And don't worry if you flub a word, or mispronounce a name.

Flub a field goal, get burned for a touchdown, miss a block, blow curfew?

And from that single flub, a race for a genuine NFL playoff berth was launched.

Mr. Bradley seemed to flub a presidential debate on agriculture here.

It's a chance to turn a flub or an awkward interaction into an experience of greater clarity and connection.