whiffle
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The Phillies and Nationals spent part of the day at the Little League International Complex and shared activities from cardboard sledding to whiffle ball games with the Little Leaguers.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
Especially in the first season, we played whiffle ball a bunch and we would just go grab dinner whenever we could.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Pickleball is played with a paddle and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
Although, she does have a knack for tossing those little whiffle balls into the most unreachable places possible.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 14, 2020
I wish I’d been as sharp as you are, and never let a woman whiffle me into a scrape.”
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
A fast train whiffled through the town and they baggage-hooked a mailbag off the car at about a hundred and fifty per.
From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver
I haven't an idea why you have whiffled around again, but I do know it will ruin your reputation.
From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.
Then the snow Whirled all about—dense, multitudinous, cold— Mixed with the wind's one devilish thrust and shriek, Which whiffled out men's tears, defeated, took hold, Flattening the flying drift against the cheek.
From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis
Her masts curved and whiffled beneath the immense piles of canvas, like a stringed bow.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
Some were merely hunting country, and were ready to be whiffled off toward any neck of the woods which might be puffed up by a wayside acquaintance as ignorant about it as he.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
When she tries to laugh she makes “a whiffling sound” that disgusts her.
From Economist ● Feb. 19, 2015
He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgy wood, And burbled as he came!
From Time Magazine Archive
‘But the others will be whiffling off to all sorts of flungaway places like Wellington for the booty flavour and Panama for the hatty taste. Every giant is having his own favourite hunting ground.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
The horses were stamping and whiffling at the edge of the clearing.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
