How To Use Fob In A Sentence

You could tell just by the way they acted; the kid had been fobbed off on them for a while.
As it is, whenever sport-led regeneration is proposed in this country, the public is fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how it will benefit and regenerate local communities – and in some cases, we seem to be dispensing with even that fig leaf. Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool
Why did 'internet' stick as a word, when 'infobahn' didn't? Times, Sunday Times
He asked the robber to let him keep the seal from his fob watch. Times, Sunday Times
The salesman fobbed the lady off with an imitation diamond.

He was probably just trying to fob off the Americans. Times, Sunday Times
I have been collecting gold pocket watches for many years; hunters and half-hunters together with alberts and half-alberts and associated fobs.
He was probably just trying to fob off the Americans. Times, Sunday Times
Car makers do not design vehicles that make extraneous noises and it sounds as though you have been fobbed off. Times, Sunday Times
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The campaigners won't be fobbed off and ignored. The Sun
There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly. Gulliver's Travels
She knew he was fobbing her off, but she accepted it; she was willing to sit in the back seat and let him do the driving. COFFIN IN FASHION
My love for her is as unilateral as my desire to punch that guy, and I can't fob it off on her.
The commercial world can no longer fob us off with these flimsy excuses. Times, Sunday Times
But the film also shows that society does not see him as such: it sees only an FOB, a supernumerary worker in a cheap laundromat, a potential Communist agitator.
Fob seal, glass intaglio on gold, Chester 1867. Big Frank... ` THE TARTAN RINGERS
If you don't remember the location of your car, just "toot" the horn a couple of times using the lock button on the key fob. Hints From Heloise
We are pleased to offer you 120,000 cotton poplin blouses at US $ 16.80 each, FOB Xingang.
This is not a teenage problem, and we won't be fobbed off with antibiotic temporary fixes any longer. Times, Sunday Times
Not all vehicles were up-armored before leaving FOB Pacesetter, but the vehicles without armor used sandbags for protection as the brigade moved north.
Maybe the Greeks and Romans had the right idea in fobbing that responsibility off onto an outside force. Archive 2009-05-01
The salesman fobbed the lady off with an imitation diamond.
‘So I was not convinced it was for me,’ said Clive, as he toyed lovingly with the electronic key fob for his pre-owned Mini.
There is also a gold-plated brass chain, with a fob of a liberty head penny, with the date 1853 (the year of Hardin's birth).
Replacing it with a longer wire will help it pick up the signal from your fob. Times, Sunday Times
Enter the electronic key fob finder. The Sun
The trinkets were attached to the exposed end of the fob.
She had been put on hold, she had been transferred, she had been forgotten or fobbed off. THE SCAR
Objective To evaluate the implication of monoclonal antibody detection of faecal occult blood ( FOB ) in colorectal cancer.
The conditions at Champagne Pool are ideal for thermophilic, mildly acidophilic archaeans such as the Sulfobales and Thermoproteales.
The vehicle's computer or the person holding down the button on the key fob that helps park it? Times, Sunday Times
The story itself is interesting, but the part that stuck out was this gadget, called a "raskat" device, which comes with a wireless keychain fob that can remotely trigger the destruction of data on a computer hard drive. Boing Boing
All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long! Black Bartlemy's Treasure
If he is really serious about giving up, and is not just saying that to fob you off, he should seek professional therapy to help him to kick the habit.
He reasoned that the king and the vizier were trying to fob him off. KARA KUSH
Car makers do not design vehicles that make extraneous noises and it sounds as though you have been fobbed off. Times, Sunday Times
_Harry_ was not to be fobb'd off so; the Pudding was good, it sat very well on his Stomach, and he eat very savourly, without the least Remorse of Conscience. A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)
Women favored these watch chatelaines while men preferred fobs by which to pull the watch from the pocket.
People are just fobbed off. Times, Sunday Times
They took direction from Laois County Council but we were fobbed off.
He related how he'd recently experienced a spot of technical bother when using his electronic key-fob thingamabob to open the car door of his nippy runabout.
This allows it access to the codes needed to program a blank key fob that is held close to the device. Times, Sunday Times
These centers themselves can hardly be considered electronic media, but they have become rather popular with international organizations under names such as infoboutiques, telecottages, and multipurpose community telecenters.
The car's computer is then instructed to program the chip in a blank fob held close to the gadget. Times, Sunday Times
I spend the next four days trying to speak to Marcia but every time I phone - her Mother fobs me off with excuses.
On inspection it is probably a fore rib or classic French entrecôte, but the kitchen failing to notice this difference, or worse, to fob us off with an inferior cut, simply won't do.
Haskell, like Fobes, never married, yet was a firm believer that education for women should prepare them for their destined role as wives and mothers.
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The vehicle's computer or the person holding down the button on the key fob that helps park it? Times, Sunday Times
This allows it access to the codes needed to program a blank key fob that is held close to the device. Times, Sunday Times
The conditions at Champagne Pool are ideal for thermophilic, mildly acidophilic archaeans such as the Sulfobales and Thermoproteales.
On two occasions teething toddlers chewing on key fobs have swallowed the transponder needed to start the car.
Mrs McArthur said: ‘I feel as though we have been fobbed off.’
You can't fob an expert off with cheap imitations.
Mark made many attempts to get medical help but his GP fobbed him off by saying that he had a trapped nerve, wind or a back problem!
The driver can keep the car's key fob in a pocket, his approach to the car being sufficient to unlock its doors. Times, Sunday Times
Although aftermarket starters are available for any car, the Malibu's is conveniently integrated into the key fob.
He watched as an attendant standing 10 feet away pushed a key fob button, lifting the rear decklid and retracting the three-panel metal roof smoothly, silently into the ample stowage compartment.
Species that use molecular H 2 as an electron donor in the gut belong to the genera Desulfovibrio and Desulfobulbus.
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Shoppers hit by problems are too often fobbed off by companies that flout laws designed to protect consumers, the advice service warned. Times, Sunday Times
Drivers are identified by a personalised electronic key fob, and if anyone drives the car without a fob, text and email alerts to the owner are triggered. Times, Sunday Times
I just picked up my key fob, pointed it at the Botany Bay, and clicked the LOCK button to see if the car's lights would flash.
I didn't want Sunday to have an early warning of my arrival so that she would be able to fob me off with pre-planned excuses.
She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
Depending on the model, the complaints range from faulty key fobs and leaky sunroofs to balky electronics that leave drivers and their passengers stranded.
The driver can keep the car's key fob in a pocket, his approach to the car being sufficient to unlock its doors. Times, Sunday Times
Then he fiddled with his watch fob, and without looking up said, ‘And our other matter was dealt with satisfactorily?’
TV-B-Gone is, according to NYT, a $14.99 keychain fob that is "Essentially a one-trick remote control [that] quickly spits out roughly 200 infrared codes and, within customary remote-control range, turns off most televisions in a few seconds. Archive 2004-11-01
She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go press my wing-collar shirt and see if my new fob chain for my grandfather's watch fits my waistcoat.
They should not be fobbed off with a diet of misleading statements and official denials.
She is anything but satisfied with the way she has been fobbed off by everyone, including APRA.
Courtwright's hammer snagged on Short's watch fob chain.
Furthermore, he said he never could wear a pocket watch and fob - fashionable at the time - because they got in the way of his arm.
Then he serves mock turtle soup, made by dissolving a fob watch. Times, Sunday Times
No, that's quite alright - don't you worry yourself about digging in your pocket to find your security fob.
That's a great theory for fobbing off CDs of music people should be listening to anyway -- so I'm all for it! Demographics and Sacred Music
Social Services fobbed us off with excuses for eight months.
Most people who collect art just want generic examples of an artist's work and get confused when non-typical examples are fobbed off on them by dealers and auction houses.
His girl Patsy has the bottle in hand while Keyfob cops a mashy feel. Keyfob Haggis
The commercial world can no longer fob us off with these flimsy excuses. Times, Sunday Times
Until the advent of the wristwatch in the twentieth century, men's pocket watches were suspended from a chain with a watch fob at the other end.
The benefit of working with celloidin is that tissue shrinkage is very minimal, and you can see tissue and cell structures very clearly under the microscope," says Archie Fobbs, neuroanatomical collection manager at the museum. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The RFBug is a little pink keychain fob with an LED inside that blinks furiously when it's brought into range of radio frequencies between 1MHz and 2. 5GHz -- your basic data/cellular/cordless phone spectrum. Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives
The fob receiver attaches to your keyring; the credit-card-sized transmitter lives in your wallet or purse. Times, Sunday Times
There, stepping from his car in the shadow of the castle, is Christopher Lee, still imperious at 82 with his gold fob and frock coat.
But it would seem that he was just fobbed off. The Sun
A newer version called immunochemical FOBT iFOBT is supposed to zero in on colon growths better than an older version known as guaiac FOBT -- which often picked up bleeding originating in the upper digestive tract, such as from a stomach ulcer. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Rather, it was deliberate policy to ignore those annoying Red Cross reports and fob them off on the legal staff for their amusement.
Somewhat similar to a car's key fob, home security key fobs include buttons to activate and deactivate the house alarm system.
For them, devolution is little more than a cynical Unionist plot to fob the Scots off with a toytown assembly and suffocate desire for ‘real’ self-rule.
He could have fobbed it off on the next parliament as so many of his predecessors had done.
There is also a copartnership typal of zippered beset that has a disconformity of unworthyer sub-crates, one of which is the perfect spread to entrust my Moleskine Memo fob (I used to attend to orders my PDA in there). D*I*Y Planner - Comments
Yes, video travels the infobahn just like any other Net traffic. Wired Top Stories
I've called the agency lots but just get fobbed off. The Sun
Bruce Schneier's op-ed on CNet about identity theft talks about why "two-factor" authentication (e.g. having to enter a password and a number that you read off of a little keychain fob) is useful for lots of things, but not for preventing identity theft. Boing Boing: April 10, 2005 - April 16, 2005 Archives
Species that use molecular H 2 as an electron donor in the gut belong to the genera Desulfovibrio and Desulfobulbus.
I don’t remember who did it – it may have been on SNL – but there was a great skit several years back about what would happen if, instead of car alarms setting off the car’s horn, they sent a signal to a keychain fob which shocked the owner. It does the opposite of what you installed it to do, jerk.
The fob watch was jettisoned in the 1930s. Times, Sunday Times
Don't try to fob me off with excuses.
Organisations are usually unprepared to accept liability and very often try to fob the blame off. The Sun
Many moons ago, when deployed to Kuwait as a young shavetail butterbar, we didn't have the obscene amenities that are de rigueur on even the most spartan FOB today. it took about a month before we had a shower -- which was little more than a shower head beneath a tank of water, the purpose of which was not to get you clean, but to get the funk off of your body. From My Position... On the way!
Shoppers hit by problems are too often fobbed off by companies that flout laws designed to protect consumers, the advice service warned. Times, Sunday Times
Originally made by Austrian watchmakers as decorative pocket watch chain fobs or as cufflinks, these miniature pinfire pistols are now prized collector's items. Boing Boing
But it would seem that he was just fobbed off. The Sun
She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
He refuses the offer of the job of Emperor, fobbing it off on the eldest son of the former ruler.
But I suggested fobbing it off on my grandfather, who was old and wouldn't know the difference.
Mick rounds the corner by the book return and sees his girl Patty, bottle in hand, and Keyfob copping a mashy feel. Slide Steel
This tells doctors you won't be fobbed off. The Sun
In New York in 1890, the latest pocket watch and fob chain could carry seals the wearer could use to demonstrate their place in society.
The company's founder left - and bet correctly that the ‘infobahn’ would be the Internet.
If the poem doesn't work for me then I can't in conscience try to fob it off on anyone else.
The car's computer is then instructed to program the chip in a blank fob held close to the gadget. Times, Sunday Times
Because I am poetically challenged, I fobbed the judging of the poetry contest onto my son Gordon, (author of “Flight of the Pellets”) who is home for two weeks in between interning with the Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C. this summer and beginning his junior year of college. Uncategorized Blog Posts
He was unaware that he was being fobbed off with out-of-date stock.
Drivers are identified by a personalised electronic key fob, and if anyone drives the car without a fob, text and email alerts to the owner are triggered. Times, Sunday Times
Surrounded by suitors who were after the absent master's wealth and the absent master's bed, she fobs them off by saying she must finish her weaving before making her mind up - and cannily unpicks it each night.
She said: 'It is like they just want to fob us off. Times, Sunday Times
He was fobbing us off in order to get out of doing an awkward, time-consuming job.
However, this was after he had already made $500,000 from the mining operations. buzzwords became the focus of a prank played on Gore by students at bingo card containing meaningless buzzwords Gore was known for peppering his speeches with, including "infobahn", "knowledge worker", "vector", Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Notes: The FOB Ningbo quotation includes the commodity inspection fee, dock fee, Book fee.
Mr. Pozar explains, You are capacitively coupling the fob to your head. Low-Tech Fixes High-Tech Problems «
Car makers do not design vehicles that make extraneous noises and it sounds as though you have been fobbed off. Times, Sunday Times
If she turns around, she'll see the silver fob and chain, marked by their daughter's teething.
They had three type of manzanilla sherry on the wine list but none in stock and tried to fob us off with white port.
She spoke early on about guest workers, and we fobbed it off," says a Rio Tinto executive. Australia's Tough Boss And Free-Market Crusader
You can't fob an expert off with cheap imitations.
Priced at US $18, it looks like the key-ring fob that opens your car door and has an illuminated combination dial.
If the only way they can win is about to play on fear and homofobic rethoric i hope the democrats wins a landslide and kick away GOP after GOP in battels for congres and senate seat. Sunday Roundup: GOP in trouble?
Gold, with an elongated chain and some kind of deco fob?" said Allie. GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN
Explanation also is used interchangeably with the term interpretation, particularly by self psychologists, in order to differentiate interpretations around selfobject needs from more classical interpretations of unconscious wishes, instinctual impulses, and superego conflicts. Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
The out of place plushie speaks of a summer love and heart break at Christmas, the gnarly key fob is from a friend who drove into a bridge abutment, and the plastic dog dish in a house with no dogs speaks of the dog that ran away at the cottage. Astrology and the Kitchen
He spotted Ford's keys and nodded toward the silver fob attached.
A new security system has since been installed, requiring each student to swipe a key fob through an electronic reader in order to gain access to their room.
Enter the electronic key fob finder. The Sun
Every time I ring them up they try to fob me off with different excuses.
They're just trying to fob people off. Times, Sunday Times
There were two pockets which we could not enter; these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Car makers do not design vehicles that make extraneous noises and it sounds as though you have been fobbed off. Times, Sunday Times
It's a shame that the climax awaiting them is the most strained and silly the bestselling author has ever fobbed off on her devoted readers. Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark: Book summary
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Detroit has long pumped out cars that no one wants, only to fob them off on rental fleets for next to nothing.
Unfortunately our authorities and political system are so wrapped up in institutionalised deceit that we just get fobbed of with any old tosh wrapped up as facts.
Fob seal, glass intaglio on gold, Chester 1867. Big Frank... ` THE TARTAN RINGERS
Is God a fool, a simpleton who can be fobbed off with an empty formula of words?
It was a silver fob, about six inches long, with a key ring at one end.
She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
He always wore a dark blue pinstriped suit, waistcoat with a gold fob, a red carnation, a trilby, and an umbrella.
He pressed the crown of the handsome - and expensive - watch attached to the fob and squinted at the golden hands sweeping about its painted ivory face.
Reports also claim that is discovered the scent on the vehicle's key fob. Times, Sunday Times
At the Jewelry table, Adam Patrick of A La Vielle Russie, Inc. examines an Elks fob from the early 20th century. Boing Boing
His fob watch is by my desk. Times, Sunday Times
Some of them came seeking shelter, however temporary; others hoped to be fobbed off with medication - free pills, if they could get them. NIGHT SISTERS
Take the SecurID offering for example; I have a fob on my keyring measuring 65x40x19 mm.
The gold fob watch is molded of a kind of gelatinized bouillon composed of beef and mushroom stocks reduced into a syrup, leaf gelatine and 10-year-old Madeira hand-wrapped with edible gold leaf. Mock Turtle Soup at The Fat Duck | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Real ones aren't that hard to find, but beware unscrupulous merchandisers who attempt to fob you off with fakes.
This is about as respectable as buying an FOB sweatband at one of their concerts. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to write Fall Out Toyworks for Image | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
fobs," products like Assure II; and that was done with some forethought, Lyons said. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Next FOB single sample orders, and professional processing, and plans to order!
This can be fobbed off on the casual reader from time to time, and when I encountered it in the first sentence above I decided to let it slide because I'm enjoying Feist's book. Word Repetition and Sundry
People are just fobbed off. Times, Sunday Times
Both efforts seem like cunning attempts to fob off used goods on a gullible reading public.
She said families who attended inquests into deaths at the hospital felt they were too often 'fobbed' off with accidental verdicts, when neglect by the hospital should have been identified. Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
Rick Kagan, executive vice president and general manager at Infoblox, says IF-MAP 2.0 adds a so-called "notify" operation to enable an IF-MAP server to support message-bus functionality in addition to publish/subscribe database functionality. Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework
We bloggers are not sketching evil cackling capitalists with top hats and watch fobs.
Fob him off with a decent second-string role and he'll play it like a maestro, often finessing the film out from under its star.
It allows soldiers to stay focused while fighting in a dangerous environment, and when they return to the FOB, they can relax and decompress after a day on the streets.
Fobbed off the zircon as a diamond.
I had a gentleman to wait upon me, a French friseur to dress my hair of a morning; I knew the taste of chocolate as by intuition almost, and could distinguish between the right Spanish and the French before I had been a week in my new position; I had rings on all my fingers, watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts, and each outvying the other in elegance. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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He carried it now, attached to the fob of his watch.
Depending on the model, the complaints range from faulty key fobs and leaky sunroofs to balky electronics that leave drivers and their passengers stranded.
Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.
A 10-way adjustable power driver's seat is linked to a memory system that can be controlled by the key fob.
The Council is fobbing-off its responsibility because I was not aware this was an unadopted road until recently.
Great Wired News article about TV B-Gone, a keychain fob that you can use to turn off bothersome TVs in bars, airports, etc. Boing Boing: October 17, 2004 - October 23, 2004 Archives
He asked the robber to let him keep the seal from his fob watch. Times, Sunday Times
There's a camera that looks like a fob watch. Times, Sunday Times
FOB(Free On Board):means that the seller delivers when the goods pass the ship's rail at the named port of shipment.
Its fob chain, stretched across the workingman's waistcoat, became a new symbol of respectability.
Why does Wall Street persist in fobbing off really low-intelligence candidates on us? Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt
They said that every so often this type of problem emerges with immobilisers and electronic key fobs.
The campaigners won't be fobbed off and ignored. The Sun
They fobbed off our suggestion.
If anyone radiophones while we're en route, those who stay behind can fob off questions. Three Worlds To Conquer
She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
When the driver grabs the door handle a sensor receives a signal from a transponder in the fob, and unlocks the door.
Organisations are usually unprepared to accept liability and very often try to fob the blame off. The Sun
USDA ESTIMATED PORK CARCASS CUTOUT Based on FOB Omaha carlot pork prices and industry yields. Undefined
Of course we weren't shocked enough to buy the newspaper, we just rushed back to the shackles on our desks to read the infobahn version of the article.
As far as I can tell, locking the car with the fob is a bad idea. Adventures in car trouble, Finale: The DMV's last cheap shot at making our life hell
Ben brought a Pogo animation cel for appraisal and his colleague Jessica Lewis had a Elks Club fob from the early part of last century. Boing Boing
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Because excessive frustration generates intense anxiety, the infant tries to expel or project rather than take in or introject the resultant “bad” selfobject images. Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
Instead, the investigator turned out to be a grave young man attired in a three-piece suit with Edwardian collar and gold watch fob.
Liverpudlians are being fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how the stadium will regenerate the north of the city Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool
Someone would buy it, discover they'd been had, and fob it off on the next poor sap.

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