whiffle

Example Sentences

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Pickleball is played with a paddle and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2022

You play with big wooden paddles, and the ball is basically a whiffle ball, plastic and perforated so it slows down in flight and doesn’t bounce very high.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2020

Although, she does have a knack for tossing those little whiffle balls into the most unreachable places possible.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 14, 2020

“We had whiffle balls and sponge balls, pinkie balls, starballs, all types of balls. But when you hit that hose it really flew,” said Larry Rubin, 77, who grew up in Oxford Circle.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c. n.; wuther†; stream, issue. respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough. fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate†; blow up.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark