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Example sentences for "lobbed"

Lexicographically close words:
loathly; loathsome; loathsomeness; loaves; lobate; lobbied; lobbies; lobbing; lobby; lobbying
  1. Suddenly the Germans lobbed a bomb over the parapet, and a cloud of smoke and dust arose, under cover of which Angus, half carrying, half dragging the wounded man, was seen staggering forward.

  2. But whereas the hand-grenade could only be lobbed in from among the wire, the rifle-grenade could easily be sent over from our trench at that particular spot on our right.

  3. Slade and I, by previous arrangement, lobbed ours over as far as ever we could to the left, landing quite near the beginning of the sap, and so getting the Boches who were only just leaving their own fire trench.

  4. Once they lobbed four rifle grenades over our left from a sap they have on that side.

  5. Two apiece, they lobbed them right into the tent.

  6. Cracker Jackson and big Danny Hale caught most of these, but not before one Jap had lobbed a hand grenade.

  7. The bombers lobbed their missiles over into the traverse ahead of them in showers, and immediately the explosions crashed out, swung round the corner with a rush to be met in turn with bullets or bursting bombs.

  8. Every here and there--where a shell had lobbed fairly in--there was a huge crater, its sides sealing up the trench with a mass of tumbled earth over which the men scrambled crouching.

  9. But we made a good target, and not more than a battalion had got clear when the "deserted" battery opened fire and lobbed a shell or two into the Bedfords and Cheshires.

  10. In a short time Landel returned their gunfire, using all of his skill: he lobbed four single shots, waited.

  11. Someone at the fountain, a skinny guy in oily jeans, raced across the square and lobbed a grenade.

  12. Harry Hawke had already drawn the pin and lobbed a hand grenade neatly through the crevice.

  13. And, jumping on to the fire-step of the bay, he lobbed a bomb into the trench about fifteen yards higher up, where it burst with a loud report.

  14. The men ducked, and Jake drew the pin from another bomb and lobbed it carefully over just as the first bomb burst.

  15. Then, with extreme caution, he lobbed one up in the direction of long-off, and ran like the devil.

  16. Determined to bag Moreau alive, he lobbed another canister of CS across the room and into the clump of people and hostages where the Frenchman was.

  17. He drew back and lobbed the can directly at the lead terrorist.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lobbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.