The phrase "were lobbed about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation in which a variety of ideas or words were exchanged among a group of people. For example: "At the meeting, all sorts of ideas were lobbed about, but no one could agree on a firm plan of action."
In the early 60s, when the first designs were being drawn up, a chilling, declassified secret document shows British defence planners obsessed with nuclear war: they expected Nato and the Warsaw Pact to acquire small nuclear weapons which would be lobbed about the battlefields of Europe like regular shells.
They were lobbed over the heads of a force of about 200 Irish policemen, some wearing white helmets, who would have been powerless against the crowd.
Three thousand high-caliber shells were lobbed onto the enemy.
He talks about "dropping a subpoena" on people as if he were lobbing a grenade.
As we were lobbing tennis balls, they were lobbing obscenities to one another.
When he was lobbed another easy one about returning to the Olympic Stadium, where he won 5,000m and 10,000m gold at London 2012, Farah replied: "I'm very excited to be able to go back in that stadium and compete again in front of my home crowd".
This isn't the first time complaints about the series have been lobbed against the film franchise, which is based on author Stephanie Meyer's series of books and stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Taylor Carr, a sophomore anthropology student, spoke to the group about her experience; bleach-filled balloons had been lobbed at her from a high apartment balcony as she walked through West Campus.
Which is lobbed well over the net.
A few stanzas of his verse are lobbed in, but there is little to persuade the reader that his melancholy has anything intriguing about it.
