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rosin

[roz-in] / ˈrɒz ɪn /


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“But the rosin is also different than it is in Japan and works well with the balls here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

It all started when plate umpire Lance Barrett saw Gallegos hit his left arm with the rosin bag after he warmed up.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

Rasmussen countered by saying pine tar and rosin are regularly used by hitters, “so it’s not illegal,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

German said Sunday he has not gotten a direct explanation of what is the appropriate amount of rosin to use.

From Washington Times ● May 28, 2023

All of my childhood memories rush in: I'm standing in the wings, watching Papa take his viola from the case, rosin the bow and begin to tune among the chatter, the dinner plans, the gossip.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is extraordinary the number and variety of rosins in the market; some in most wonderfully contrived boxes designed to keep the rosin dust from making the fingers sticky, or—more probably—to sell!

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George

Several fairly successful paints of this type have recently appeared in the market; some of them being made of acid rosins compounded with vegetable oils.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

The reaction is rather violent, and yields, in addition to well-defined crystalline substances, amorphous bodies resembling rosins.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

Materials Used.—Various oils, fats and rosins are also used, and some acids in water are also valuable for this purpose.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe

The cuíca, a Brazilian friction drum with a rosined stick fastened to its head, repeatedly yawns like a distant lion, while sirens and clanking anvils evoke an urban jungle.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2010

Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth?"

From Time Magazine Archive

They pulled tin cans along rosined strings behind fat old ladies and grinned at them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the 106 members of the Boston Symphony, like thousands of symphonic musicians all over the U.S., polished their brasswork and rosined their bows for the start of a new season.

From Time Magazine Archive

And for the laity he says again that many think, when they see a bow being rosined, that it is being "greased to make it go faster."

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George

I hand him the viola and start rosining the bow.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

With practised skill he rapidly tightened the four strings into harmony; then, after carefully rosining the bow, rasped it with uncertain touch across them.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay




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