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Glasnow said his hand is discolored every time he throws off the mound, in a bullpen workout or a game, because he mixes rosin with a baseball that is rubbed in dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2024

“OK, this is the rosin bag and a donut. Oh, my Lord. And I put them in my pocket.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

“But the rosin is also different than it is in Japan and works well with the balls here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

It all started when plate umpire Lance Barrett saw Gallegos hit his left arm with the rosin bag after he warmed up.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

I'm thankful I still have some rosin left for my bow, but it definitely needs new horsehair.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several fairly successful paints of this type have recently appeared in the market; some of them being made of acid rosins compounded with vegetable oils.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

See-sawing, t' fiddler now begins The best that he is able; He rosins t' stick an' screws up t' pins An' jumps up on to t' table, To play that neet.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman

The reaction is rather violent, and yields, in addition to well-defined crystalline substances, amorphous bodies resembling rosins.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

Materials Used.—Various oils, fats and rosins are also used, and some acids in water are also valuable for this purpose.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe

The cuíca, a Brazilian friction drum with a rosined stick fastened to its head, repeatedly yawns like a distant lion, while sirens and clanking anvils evoke an urban jungle.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2010

Last week the 106 members of the Boston Symphony, like thousands of symphonic musicians all over the U.S., polished their brasswork and rosined their bows for the start of a new season.

From Time Magazine Archive

Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth?"

From Time Magazine Archive

They pulled tin cans along rosined strings behind fat old ladies and grinned at them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Peerless Equestrienne believes that she will land on her feet on the cantering white horse's broad rosined back after that double cart-wheel.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer

I hand him the viola and start rosining the bow.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

With practised skill he rapidly tightened the four strings into harmony; then, after carefully rosining the bow, rasped it with uncertain touch across them.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy