squib

Guardiola's 100th Champions League match as City boss was a damp squib, in stark contrast to so many of the previous 99, which includes 62 wins and the club's maiden European crown in 2023.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

But the much-anticipated showdown between two Heisman-candidate quarterbacks and national championship-quality teams had been a damp squib over the first two quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

Kicking under the new format feels more like “shanking” a kickoff than doing a squib kick, as Dicker put it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024

But earlier this month, MPs on the Treasury Committee branded these measures - dubbed the Edinburgh Reforms - "a damp squib".

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023

When the old man, helped by Bilbo and some dwarves, had finished unloading, Bilbo gave a few pennies away; but not a single squib or cracker was forthcoming, to the disappointment of the onlookers.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

So after some damp squibs in recent years, are we set for an unusually exciting end to the campaign at the bottom of the table?

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Getting scant response beyond a few scattered news squibs, the CDC dropped the abuse issue entirely in its follow-up 2023 report.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023

However, digging today into The Seattle Times’ online archive, I find that social squibs often help reveal the story of a vintage edifice.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

“He didn’t really even skim... He could read headlines and articles about himself, or at least headlines on articles about himself, and the gossip squibs on the New York Post’s Page Six.”

From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2018

But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harvey jammed Bryson Stott, who squibbed a grounder to the left side.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

Upton grounded into a fielder’s choice for the second out, and Pujols, the slow-footed slugger, squibbed a grounder to the right of the mound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

Howard and Fisher could have squibbed the chance to change Australia’s gun laws, but they didn’t.

From Time ● Jun. 5, 2014

But on this first Memorial Day Weekend since , the kickoff began more like the squibbed variety, the weather gloomy and crowds thin.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2013

Total result of one of these firework displays: several thousand rounds of ammunition squibbed off, hundreds of star shells wasted, and no casualties.

From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

But in the aftermath, many questioned why Buffalo sent its kickoff into the end zone rather than squibbing it to force a return and take critical seconds off the clock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

After the Sun Devils nearly broke another return, USC opted to go with its other kicking option, Michael Brown, who resolved to simply squibbing kickoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2019

Earlier this week, special teams coach John Baxter noted that USC struggled with squibbing kicks and thus would avoid that strategy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2019

The brawny Fielder had the only hit between them in the ninth, squibbing an infield single up the middle.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2011

This is the mere squibbing of politicians, while the enemy’s artillery is thundering at the gates!

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones