Sentence examples for lobbed from inspiring English sources

The word "lobbed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb, meaning to throw or propel something in a high arc. For example: "The pitcher lobbed the ball to the catcher."

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lobbed

verb

Past of lob

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Moments earlier, Morata had nearly lobbed Casillas while at the very outset, the outstanding Arturo Vidal had been narrowly snuffed out by Pepe.

Murray, workmanlike in plain white T-shirt and black shorts, had to labour to win a long first rally on his serve, and the patrons, so feverishly for him on Friday night, responded in his favour again when Djokovic lobbed long.

A few days ago, França said, someone had lobbed a home-made explosive device into the protest camp.

Murray retrieved and was lobbed but, swivelling on the retreat near the baseline, conjured up a dazzling crosscourt winner that alerted the crowd to the possibility of something special.

The health minister Peter Dutton lobbed another one across the chamber yesterday.

In Germany last month, molotov cocktails were lobbed into the Bergische synagogue in Wuppertal – previously destroyed on Kristallnacht – and a Berlin imam, Abu Bilal Ismail, called on Allah to "destroy the Zionist Jews … Count them and kill them, to the very last one".

Thanks very much for your company tonight, it was delightful to second screen the Aussie broadcast and second screen a few of you on the Twitters – and not one person lobbed a spoiler that I saw, which is absolutely in the spirit of the Eurovisions.

Whittall, riskily introduced with four overs left, caused Crawley to slice to deep cover; Thorpe's leg-side shot lobbed into the offside; England's chance had slipped away.

Earlier in the evening groups lobbed bricks and bottles at police, and briefly shut down two freeways.

My guess is that this could be the first tomato being lobbed in a bigger food fight to come during the 2015 reauthorisation of child-nutrition programs.

A bomb was lobbed into a monarchist parade in Florence in 1878, another into a crowd in Pisa two days later.

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