rosin

They passed time during rain delays playing bocce ball with a rosin bag, and Herbert had to win those competitions too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

This time, it was rosin on his left arm.

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

Scherzer claimed it was simply a mix of sweat and rosin, nothing illegal.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

Papa stuffing the good viola case with rosin and strings.

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

When me puts up tomatoes in the spirit-world, me rosins 'em when they bile.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

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

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

See-sawing, t' fiddler now begins The best that he is able; He rosins t' stick an' screws up t' pins An' jumps up on to t' table, To play that neet.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The edge of the box and the scantling were rosined, and it was worked by two men sawing up and down.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley

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

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

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

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy