squib
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Guardiola's 100th Champions League match as City boss was a damp squib, in stark contrast to so many of the previous 99, which includes 62 wins and the club's maiden European crown in 2023.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
It's no mean feat, albeit both were a damp squib with Scotland wheezing their way to an early exit on each occasion without really landing a punch on, well, anyone.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
But the much-anticipated showdown between two Heisman-candidate quarterbacks and national championship-quality teams had been a damp squib over the first two quarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
Kicking under the new format feels more like “shanking” a kickoff than doing a squib kick, as Dicker put it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024
In his pocket might be a newspaper with a squib: “Oak cord wood is bringing ten dollars a cord in Los Angeles.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Watching “The Challenge” contenders pretend to dramatically expire for the cameras when ink squibs explode on their chests dilutes the tragedy in that.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
It was, instead, the dampest of damp squibs, published after quite the bust-up behind closed doors.
From BBC ● May 3, 2023
More the whiff of damp squibs than cordite.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2020
However, digging today into The Seattle Times’ online archive, I find that social squibs often help reveal the story of a vintage edifice.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harvey jammed Bryson Stott, who squibbed a grounder to the left side.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022
Bellinger hit a grounder that squibbed past Beltre at third base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
Howard and Fisher could have squibbed the chance to change Australia’s gun laws, but they didn’t.
From Time ● Jun. 5, 2014
But on this first Memorial Day Weekend since , the kickoff began more like the squibbed variety, the weather gloomy and crowds thin.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2013
Total result of one of these firework displays: several thousand rounds of ammunition squibbed off, hundreds of star shells wasted, and no casualties.
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
But in the aftermath, many questioned why Buffalo sent its kickoff into the end zone rather than squibbing it to force a return and take critical seconds off the clock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Earlier this week, special teams coach John Baxter noted that USC struggled with squibbing kicks and thus would avoid that strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
After the Sun Devils nearly broke another return, USC opted to go with its other kicking option, Michael Brown, who resolved to simply squibbing kickoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
The brawny Fielder had the only hit between them in the ninth, squibbing an infield single up the middle.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2011
This is the mere squibbing of politicians, while the enemy’s artillery is thundering at the gates!
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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