googly
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Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
The experienced leg-spinner's googly may have been well studied by opposition batters, but it remains a potent weapon, as Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka discovered when he was trapped lbw slogging to leg.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
They also remind him of the late comic actor Marty Feldman, whose googly eyes shot off in different directions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Not long after that, they saw the first bootleg merchandise: a toy version of Mico, el Micófono, a character that is just a microphone with googly eyes that street vendors could easily replicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Otto stomped back to the bike, while Sheed made his final googly eyes.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Brook and Livingstone were bowled by his googlies and afterwards the only boundaries were hit by England's skipper until one by Adil Rashid in the 19th over.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
“I’ll never bowl googlies again, never deliver a chinaman to a left-hander.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017
Sky subscriptions may be buoyant and ITV may have clambered out of the ditch, but it is not for nothing that media execs mutter about a certain tech giant bowling them googlies.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
On the second night of term he put it to Rayner that he was intending to bowl googlies.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
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