rosin
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They passed time during rain delays playing bocce ball with a rosin bag, and Herbert had to win those competitions too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
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
Tichenor said he was unable to determine the exact substance, but that based on his training it appeared to be more sticky than rosin.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
This time, it was rosin on his left arm.
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
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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
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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
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
It is extraordinary the number and variety of rosins in the market; some in most wonderfully contrived boxes designed to keep the rosin dust from making the fingers sticky, or—more probably—to sell!
From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George
When me puts up tomatoes in the spirit-world, me rosins 'em when they bile.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
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
They pulled tin cans along rosined strings behind fat old ladies and grinned at them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus, let prosperity ebb or flow, Still bate no jot of hope, You may draw the longest kind of a bow If 'tis only rosined with soap!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
I hand him the viola and start rosining the bow.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
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