spitball
Example Sentences
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His employees see it as a kind of revenge move by someone who was a constant target of spitballs from the media cool kids.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2021
“One way to think about plastic barriers is that they are good for blocking things like spitballs but ineffective for things like cigarette smoke,” Marr said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2021
Way back in 1920, at the tail end of the two-decade Dead Ball Era, the league banned pitchers from throwing spitballs or using other foreign substances to grip the ball.
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2021
He was cocksure and intense — some said arrogant — on the pitcher’s mound, armed with a baffling arsenal of fastballs, curveballs, sliders and, he later admitted, spitballs.
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2020
He gave a speech, but I couldn’t hear it because Brandon Goff wouldn’t let me take the spitballs out.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
