lob

Were the Dallas Mavericks banking on lob threat Derrick Jones Jr. — on a minimum contract — being a catalyst for their run to the 2024 NBA Finals?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Where one sees an opportunity to hit a lob wedge, another will hit a bump-and-run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

When healthy, scouts said, he can be the lob threat and defender that Doncic yearns to have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Playing with variety and spin, Chwalinska can lob, drop shot and moonball her opponents to distraction, but she can also hit with pace to finish off points quickly.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

One way to say he formerly did is he used to: Andre used to have a great lob.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

There's actually two Spurs players on the line and he still lobs it into the goal.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

If he put forth that effort in every game he could be an NBA starter, and maybe an All-Star, despite the fact his offensive game is limited to lobs and put-backs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

The rally - full of extraordinary drop shots, lobs and smashes - will take some beating this year.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

Jodie Burrage, who played doubles with Kartal, joked it was not a surprise to learn the statistic about Kartal's height "given how many lobs went over her head".

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025

I stand, watching as he takes something out of his pocket, winds his arm back, and then lobs whatever it is into the air over the house between us.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Now, one of its rivals has lobbed a buyout offer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

His returns were often unorthodox and he was fond of a lobbed service return to unsettle opponents.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Bianco also obliquely referred to attacks Hilton has lobbed against the sheriff on the campaign trail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

I was a fresh-faced high school senior, living out the prime of my teenage youth in an increasingly progressive world where fundamentalist doomsday prophecies were lobbed around in jest.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

The raven cawed again, ignoring the treats being lobbed at it.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

But so far she hasn’t stumped for him, instead lobbing veiled criticisms of Talarico’s efforts to win over Black voters.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

By summer 1895, students were lobbing small balls into waste paper baskets perched upon poles on the lawn of a new Dartford talent factory: Madame Bergman Osterberg's Physical Training College.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

We need to cultivate the investment equivalent of lobbing the ball back to the other side, which Ellis argued in most cases will be buying and holding a broad market index fund.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

But other Indiana lawmakers denied they’d ever received that threat, and the Trump White House—which isn’t shy about lobbing threats—has not publicly said anything along those lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

A couple of people have crumpled their programs into balls, and are lobbing them toward the ceiling.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli