whiffle
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Especially in the first season, we played whiffle ball a bunch and we would just go grab dinner whenever we could.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Pickleball is played with a paddle and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
Although, she does have a knack for tossing those little whiffle balls into the most unreachable places possible.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 14, 2020
In another video, a pair of three-month old seriema chicks repeatedly drop whiffle balls on the ground at the St Louis Zoo:
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2019
Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus. air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah†; branchiae†, gills, flabellum†, vertilabrum†. whiffle ball.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Her masts curved and whiffled beneath the immense piles of canvas, like a stringed bow.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
Saddle-horses were tied in front, heads hanging and feet knuckled askew with long waiting, and from inside an uneven, riotous din whiffled lightly across the river and intervening meadow to the hill.
From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Owen Wister
"King," said Sanders—he carried in his hand a rattan cane of familiar shape, and as he spoke he whiffled it in the air, making a little humming noise—"stand up!"
From Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace
A fast train whiffled through the town and they baggage-hooked a mailbag off the car at about a hundred and fifty per.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
I haven't an idea why you have whiffled around again, but I do know it will ruin your reputation.
From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Burt L. Standish
When she tries to laugh she makes “a whiffling sound” that disgusts her.
From Economist ● Feb. 19, 2015
He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgy wood, And burbled as he came!
From Time Magazine Archive
The horses were stamping and whiffling at the edge of the clearing.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
‘But the others will be whiffling off to all sorts of flungaway places like Wellington for the booty flavour and Panama for the hatty taste. Every giant is having his own favourite hunting ground.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
