What's the difference between lobbed and robbed?

Lobbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lob

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Real are not giving them a chink to exploit so, eventually, Neymar lobs a ball into the box.
  • (2) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
  • (3) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
  • (4) But Murray drags it back to deuce, a lob from him and a missed slice from Federer making it so.
  • (5) Before placing further questions on the notice paper, he lobs this at Bill Shorten.
  • (6) Italy crashed out, though Fabio Quagliarella’s valedictory lob from distance deep into injury time ensured they at least departed South Africa with a flourish.
  • (7) "I think his genius is to make people feel comfortable, and then lob in the incendiary."
  • (8) Before he left, Peter had one more grenade to lob at both of us.
  • (9) Stoke's Glenn Whelan was sent off for a very silly second yellow card, Hughes found himself banished from the bench for protesting – lobbing his managerial anorak over the dugout roof in disgust en route – and Marc Wilson was also dismissed after conceding a penalty.
  • (10) First, Álvaro Negredo, once of this parish, came close to lobbing Bravo as the goalkeeper back-pedalled to tip over.
  • (11) No wonder that Ed Miliband has found it so easy to lob verbal grenades.
  • (12) He’s not in power yet, so he still gets to blunder around lobbing out daft policies willy-nilly in the hope that one of them will scan.
  • (13) The assistants – old garage heads who clearly loathed this racket the kids were making – dismissively lobbed a pile of white labels on to the counter.
  • (14) "So is that hairdo," he lobs back, "but I figure that's your business."
  • (15) So the idea of a benevolent dictator is not my cup of tea Rand Paul Paul said polls became part of “a self-reinforcing news cycle because of the celebrity nature that goes on, on and on”, though he accepted that voters might “at a superficial level be attracted to bombast, insults, junior high sort of lobbing of verbal bombs that kind of stuff”.
  • (16) An officer suggested tear gas would quieten them down and a gas canister was lobbed into the transport.
  • (17) Those guys played some unbelievable lobs and angles.
  • (18) In another largely Muslim neighbourhood, PK12, families camp out in grass and mud with buckets, carpets, mattresses, discarded rubbish, cooking pots over charcoal fires and a constant fear of lobbed grenades.
  • (19) She agreed to this interview to discuss Labour's plans to draft landmark legislation on women's safety , but that was before the inquiry into child abuse was announced, and before deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman lobbed a bomb into the party hierarchy, insisting that the Gordon Brown era was marked by sexism and inequality.
  • (20) Leicester had nothing in response and United had the chances to put a more emphatic slant on the scoreline, with Rashford testing Schmeichel and Mata blowing a one-on-one with a fluffed attempted lob.

Robbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rob

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (2) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
  • (3) One of those was Fon, an independent retailer in Sheffield run by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell.
  • (4) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
  • (5) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
  • (6) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
  • (7) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
  • (8) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
  • (9) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
  • (10) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
  • (11) The officials released them from their obligation after the Guardian on Sunday reported that Davis was a CIA agen t. Davis shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore last month who he says had been trying to rob him.
  • (12) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
  • (13) A case of mixed semi-specific cutaneous myiasis produced by larvae from Calliphora vicina Rob.-Desv.
  • (14) Rob Fisher, head of UK personal investments at Fidelity, thinks tax considerations alone make it worthwhile using the full limit.
  • (15) The ROB-1 beta-lactamase-encoding plasmids from eight Pasteurella and two Haemophilus strains were compared by restriction endonuclease and hybridization analyses.
  • (16) The military prosecutor, major Rob Stelle, told the court: "Sergeant Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality.
  • (17) The zoologist Rob Wiliams, who is one of the few people to have seen members of the uncontacted tribes, says franker discussions with and about indigenous people forced into transition are vital because once tribes have access to roads, guns and healthcare, their numbers grow rapidly and so does their impact on other species.
  • (18) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (19) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
  • (20) Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "The Bank of England will also not be overly worried by the weaker numbers.

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