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How To Use lob In A Sentence

• The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
• Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
• That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
• (Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.") Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
• Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
• It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
• AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
• A few years ago Rod and I were being lobbied by a group of officials from a large corporation.
• It shows how football has come to occupy a central place in the networks of global power. Times, Sunday Times