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
The nephew was not present when a group of his friends lobbed homemade explosives toward a barn full of teens and burned it to the ground in minutes.
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Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
But in a press conference later on Friday, some criticism was lobbed at the NWS for its forecasts in the days leading up to the storm, most notably from Texas Division of Emergency Management chief W. Nim Kidd.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 July 2025
The thin atmosphere also does little to protect the planet from meteorites and asteroids, which lob themselves into Mars with some regularity.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
In one corner was Musk lobbing bombs linking Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
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Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
But in a press conference later on Friday, some criticism was lobbed at the NWS for its forecasts in the days leading up to the storm, most notably from Texas Division of Emergency Management chief W. Nim Kidd.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 July 2025
The thin atmosphere also does little to protect the planet from meteorites and asteroids, which lob themselves into Mars with some regularity.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
In one corner was Musk lobbing bombs linking Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
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Authorities believe Bryant is the man captured on surveillance video throwing a Molotov cocktail through the window of the building, according to an arrest affidavit cited by the Denver Post and Colorado Public Radio (CPR).—
Ben Brachfeld,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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Through his first eight seasons with the Panthers, Newton threw for over 3,000 yards each year.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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Videos posted on social media showed men dressed in clothes bearing far-right symbols and migrants carrying Moroccan flags hurling objects at each other in Saturday night’s violence, which followed several days of lower intensity unrest.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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There were vocal protesters hurling insults and sometimes water bottles at federal agents, and there were anxious friends and family of those who work at Glass House, a huge cannabis operation.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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Don't toss your wine corks—put them to use in your garden!—
Viveka Neveln,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 July 2025
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Just pulse the fillet in a food processor until finely chopped, then toss it with fresh, whole-wheat breadcrumbs (made in the same processor), as well as ginger, garlic, scallion and cilantro.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 July 2025
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The high-energy collision breaks and reconnects magnetic field lines, flinging solar wind particles across Earth's magnetosphere at speeds that can approach the speed of light.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
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In a fraction of a second, the bison goes from standing to charging, and one or more people are thrown backward or even flung into the air.—
Gabe Castro-Root,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
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“Lob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lob. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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