How To Use Squib In A Sentence

Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides.
Now Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) is tapping into that vast market with an aggressive advertising campaign for Abilify (aripiprazole), its blockbuster antipsychotic medication. AdWatch: Abilify finds lucrative new audience
Still in the end around 16,000 fans went home fed up after a damp squib of a derby that was supposed to be full of fireworks. The Sun
As for the" squibs "conspiracy theorists claim to see in videos of the WTC collapse, these are plumes of smoke and debris ejected from the building due to the immense pressure associated with millions of tons of falling towers (see Figure 1). Debating "Skeptic Magazine" on September 11th Issues
The striking features of Negro evening dress consisted in astonishing turbans with marabou feathers, into which add accessories of squib shape and other forms were inserted. A Renegade History of the United States

The latest mobile phones promise the world at your fingertips, but Stewart Mitchell finds that zappy new services are proving a damp squib
Here's a squib from the publisher's page about the book. Books
Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings. Samuel Johnson
On the first of October all was ready for this audacious squibbing of the hornet's nest, and the fleet of investment (which kept its distance according to the weather and the tides) stood in, not bodily so as to arouse excitement, but a ship at a time sidling in towards the coast, and traversing one another's track, as if they were simply exchanging stations. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
It was a damp squib, and its inevitable failure came about because its priority was not excellence, but money. Times, Sunday Times
Taped to the squib is a small plastic bag of fake blood. Melons Bursting in Air
This is in addition to the blanks, squibs and small arms like grenades that were employed.
Bristol-Myers Squibb sells Taxol to the public for $4.87 per milligram, which is more than 20 times what it costs to produce. T r u t h o u t
I'm not squibbing; I 'honked' to it from behind some rocks, and then knocked it over with a stone. Sara, a Princess
And at the same time ended a career that fizzled out like a damp squib. The Sun
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
I told him; and all his anger turned to laughter, swearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy {21: 29}, a habber de hoy {21: 30}, a chicken, a squib, a squall {21: 30}, one that hath not wit enough to make a ballet, that, by Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
) Finn's new crew are an even damper squib, a real Ziggy-by-numbers put-on. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Well, he served for some time at a queer sort o 'trade -- the makin' o 'fireworks; them rediklous things they call squibs, crackers, rockets, an' Roman candles, with which the foolish folk o 'the settlements blow their money into smoke for the sake o' ticklin 'their fancies for a few minutes. The Prairie Chief
It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.
He commented: 'It looks like something of a damp squib. The Sun
On emerging from a close that night Robert was hurt in the face by shot from a pistol belonging to a fellow student Arthur Tran, who with a group of other students was firing a pistol and letting off squibs.
And there is a cabinet minister; well, we know what he is; I have been squibbing him for these two years, and now that I meet him I feel like a snob. Endymion
THE Oscars were a real damp squib this year. The Sun
As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans.
Speaking about the consequences of fireworks on dogs, operations director Jane Patmore said many guide dogs were forced into early retirement due to the misuse of rockets and squibs.
While his squibs are sometimes cast with a conservative slant, his ‘developing’ scoops often send the mainstream media scrambling to catch up.
We spent a whole day with zombies and squibs going off.
Wizard pairings can indeed result in non-magical children, called squibs, which, although relatively rare, are possibly three or four per generation small number of people in the wizard world. The genetics of Harry Potter? - The Panda's Thumb
It may well prove a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
On kick-offs, they're squibbing the ball or kicking it short.
In the case of one it proved a brilliant success, the other was a damp squib and is now cause for deep regret. Times, Sunday Times
Two of these were surprised and brought to Esquibel, who, having learnt from them that the cacique was at hand, poniarded one of the spies, and bound the other, making him serve as guide. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
But they all seem to cite back to this little squib in the Post.
Still in the end around 16,000 fans went home fed up after a damp squib of a derby that was supposed to be full of fireworks. The Sun
'Don't know nobody called Snowdon about' ere, do you, Mr. Squibbs? ' The Nether World
But he squibs the solutions suggested by the Balmain Secession Movement, even though these point the way to reconciling suburban loyalties with the structures of local government.
In the class, students recreate Hollywood-style gunshots, using tiny explosive devices called squibs that one of the students volunteers to wear under his clothes. Lighting Up
A damp squib - and he has had one or two of those - and this budget could be his last. Times, Sunday Times
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
There must be movies based on a single sentence - perhaps a squib of a newspaper story or a line of scripture or one famous quote.
Merely to sit as a passive medium between two men who are squibbing philosophical nonsense to one another: no, it was not good enough! The Ladybird
By the time they get their man, it's a bit of a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
Bylines and datelines state unequivocally that the reporter was there, saw what he saw, and reported it faithfully, unless an ‘additional reporting’ squib accompanies the story.
With the exception of a few newspaper wire squibs and profiles of hometown UNICEF volunteers, the story was completely ignored in the U.S. press.
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
A talk-box is a device that allows a singer to modulate the sound of another instrument by singing into a piece of plastic tubing, while a vocoder is a device inputted into a keyboard that changes the pitch of a singer's voice to match any played notes. backlash has developed against Antares recently, resulting in a damp squib campaign spearheaded by Rick Rubin. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
Bristol-Myers Squibb said it was issuing the recall because some of the Coumadin tablets may not contain the appropriate level of isopropanol, a chemical used to maintain Coumadin in a crystallized state. Coumadin blood-thinner tablets recalled
During his last days Parsons was reduced to working for Hollywood movies, making tiny explosive squibs that mimicked a man being shot.
Metal-penetrating oil can kill primers, and if it gets inside the powder charge, can again cause disastrous duds and even more disastrous squibs.
Regardless, Rice seeks payback, and before you can say ‘I'll never get these 95 minutes of my life back,’ guns blaze and squibs pop and general mayhem ensues.
Most motorists have already decided the scheme has been a damp squib, according to Smith. Times, Sunday Times
In squibbing it as they saw it, she betrayed their trust.
If last week's little demonstration by Iran -- calling for the elimination of Israel -- didn't convince you that the people who run that country are just plain nuts, perhaps this little squib from the National Post will help. November 2005
But ‘To a Communist’ is more than just a satirical squib; its satire depends on MacNeice's literary-critical reading of Spender's text.
Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful jumbled squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. Planet-x.com.au » AudioBooks Roald
My garden is a real damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
I sincerely hope you'll write a new post soon - even if it's only to say "well, I've re-examined the evidence of steel melting, explosive "squibs", free fall, Pentagon hole too small to be a jetliner, no wreckage at the Pentagon... and I'm doing so without prejudice". "You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...."
We kick the ball down there, squib it, keep it inside and we'll probably take five seconds off of the clock and they'll have it at the twenty-five, thirty yard line, making them make about a forty-five yard play to get in field goal range.
Bristol-Myers Squibb holds the international patent on stavudine.
The elderly residents of Ardmaine Nursing Home on the Fullerton Road suffer nightly harassment and are unable to sleep as youths throw squibs and bangers at the windows, according to a member of staff.
•Second-guessing: Maybe the thought of squibbing kickoffs to avoid Devin Hester isn't the best idea. Super Bowl breakdown
While setting up a discussion, John McLaughlin quoted Naomi Klein's "squib" on a new Obama book titled The Mendacity of Hope, by Roger D. Hodge, the former editor-in-chief of Harper's magazine: Joseph A. Palermo: The McLaughlin Group: It's the "Professional Left's" Fault
The guy gets shot, he falls backwards, the squib explodes, tearing open his shirt clearly letting us see the blood package taped to his chest.
This time Squib laughed and gave her a kiss filled with all the passion and love in his being.
But that little squib on Lex's views is all by way of background.
And at the same time ended a career that fizzled out like a damp squib. The Sun
But what a squib it proved to be. Times, Sunday Times
The agency said it is working with the drug's makers, sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb, to determine whether genetic factors, interactions with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), or both are responsible for the so-called clopidogrel resistance phenomenon. MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
Today, the bang from that easy buck also appears to have shrunk to a small squib.
Today's editorial page had a little squib: ‘National Turn-off-the-Television week comes around every year.’
Christmas too has been a damp squib for the merchants and businesses as people rethink and re-evaluate their priorities.
But it proved to be a damp squib and an anticlimax if ever there was one.
After all that media attention, the whole event turned out to be a bit of a damp squib, with very few people attending.
What had promised to be a splendid scandal looked like fizzling out like the dampest of squibs, and this damned baronet would walk away without a blot on his escutcheon ... or so it seemed to me just then. Watershed
Tennessee tried to keep the ball out of Jerome Mathis 'hands by squibbing the kickoff, but Todd Washington pitched it to the rookie returner. USATODAY.com - Scores
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
As investigative journalist, Joel Bleifuss, warned in a 1995 In These Times article, "Bristol-Myers Squibb sells Taxol to the public for $4.87 per milligram, which is more than 20 times what it costs to produce. THE MEDICAL NEWS
Songs of 19th century weavers are preserved alongside current anti-war parodies like the wonderful Glaswegian squib sung to the tune of the Italian resistance song, ‘Bella Ciao’.
I agree the squib was the wrong call, but to play devil's advocate, Gerald Jones had made a bunch of big returns for Tennessee that night. Undefined
In another victory for an anticlotting drug co-developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Pfizer Inc., U.S. regulators agreed to a speedy review of the companies' application to market it. Stroke Drug to Get Speedy FDA Review
What unfolded was an embarrassing, boring, complete damp squib of a sporting spectacle. The Sun
The initial fireworks turn into a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
One of my favorites of Juster’s smaller squibs is called The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
It may well prove a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
By the time they get their man, it's a bit of a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
Bristol-Myers Squibb holds the patent on stavudine under the brand name Zerit.
We use the Squibb pyknometer [28] and thereby can determine the specific gravity of the alcohol to the fifth or sixth decimal place with a high degree of accuracy. Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
In the case of one it proved a brilliant success, the other was a damp squib and is now cause for deep regret. Times, Sunday Times
After taking the lead on Steve Christie's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining, the Bills elected to pop up the kickoff instead of squibbing it.
Wuerffel squibbed a kickoff in the fourth quarter because Conway suffered what he called a ‘total failure’ of his leg, and to add insult to the injury, Wuerffel was forced to make the tackle on the return.
I'm not squibbing; I 'honked' to it from behind some rocks, and then knocked it over with a stone. Sara, a Princess
My garden is a real damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
He claims he was struck on the forehead by a squib during filming and is now suing the studio for extreme mental, physical and emotional pain and suffering that ‘caused him to employ physicians’.
Do you think a decent newspaper might want to fill out the record, to qualify Armstrong's views with a post-publication squib that she has a barrow to push - a paid barrow?
Now for a quick fix in keeping with the company's rig-it-and-roll mentality: we look for ‘CueCat2’ to come stuffed with a tiny squib, detonated by opening the plastic housing.
Another Big Bang or a damp squib? Times, Sunday Times
I have been much squibbed for this, perhaps by disappointed applicants for professorships, to which they were deemed incompetent.
It was worth just 9 - squibs don't come much damper.
That is the sort of decision that real leaders of this nation have to take, and you have squibbed it.
Compare his incomplete squibs to the reporting done by the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin.
Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted.
But what a squib it proved to be. Times, Sunday Times
Spark must have left her fireworks out in the rain before setting off this box of squibs.
Ornidyl can no longer be bought for love or money but Aventis, and later, Bristol-Myers Squibb, began to market eflornithine to the West as Vaniqa, a prescription-only facial depilatory. Harriet A. Washington: Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures
With five seconds left in the game, Guerra kicked a short squib which Prospect quickly downed.
They could either drill the bullet out, or else keep squibbing the gun with fresh priming till enough of the powder inside the touchhole dried to catch the fire. Sharpe's Waterloo
The opening in 1959 was a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it.
For example, we see demolition "squibs" shooting out of the windows of the buildings before they started to collapse. OpEdNews - Diary: 9/11 No One Could Imagine
It is needless to describe in detail the literary task-work done by Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings. Samuel Johnson
Roman candles, squibs and rockets were already in the shops and the protesters had armed themselves.
In terms of action, though, the Club Hell sequence, at the beginning of the film, rates as one of her fondest memories, because ‘the pressure to get every move right and be in sync with all the squibs and the explosions was immense’.
Most motorists have already decided the scheme has been a damp squib, according to Smith. Times, Sunday Times
It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.
Based on that pulsed information, the missile's guidance electronics fire a series of small squibs on the forward attitude control motor to push the missile into the correct azimuth to impact the target.
It was a damp squib, and its inevitable failure came about because its priority was not excellence, but money. Times, Sunday Times
Wouldn't you know it, his stop was the 4th floor as well, so I stood nervously shoved in the front right corner, staring at the control panel with intense interest so he wouldn't get any ideas about moseying over to MY area and squibbing me out AGAIN. Haloaskew Diary Entry
What all the late squibbing and fibbing, placarding, and blackguarding, losing and winning, beering and ginning, and every other _et cetera_, has been about! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841
In the class, students re-create Hollywood-style gunshots, using tiny explosive devices called squibs. Melons Bursting in Air
Now, I admit that I'm slightly jaundiced on this topic, because I had to spend my school holidays in Dubai as a surly teenager and frankly anyone who spits on the place has my sympathy, but even so – it was a whole lot of fuss over what was, gobbing-wise, a damp squib. Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations | Harry Pearson
THE Oscars were a real damp squib this year. The Sun
A couple of squibs later and he was lying on the floor in a pool of fake blood.
The traditional Easter turkey boom - the second biggest after Christmas - was a damp squib because hard-up families bought cheaper chickens.
The traditional Easter turkey boom - the second biggest after Christmas - was a damp squib because hard-up families bought cheaper chickens.
These were the explosions that created Bikini's wrecks, but atomic bombs were squibs compared to what was to come.
Of course this looks way cool on film, especially in slow motion with squibs full of stage blood bursting explosively, and has therefore become an established idiom of fictional ballistics.
Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume.
I also wrote a thousand word squib/essay about Sant Jordi, and a noi (Catlaan for "boy") I met my first year in Spain, that was supposed to be a max of 500 words. Breakfast in Bed
The opening in 1959 was a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
He squibbed the kick and had to make the tackle himself, prompting Spurrier to slam his clipboard, visor and headset to the ground.
A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it.
One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese.
I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting.
At the risk of errant foolishness, I attempted a nationalized semiotics of squibbing: what will the squibs of each country's films tell me?
Plavix, also known by its generic name clopidogrel, is marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA of France. When Plavix May Not Work
Your Honour, I do not want to squib the answer, but the answer is maybe, and I will need to spend a little more time later saying why it is maybe, rather than yes.
I would surmise that the offending editor thought that the point of the squib was merely Churchill's strong castigation of the ‘tedious nonsense’ in ministerial minutes.
No time to talk, he insists; got to splice together a two-minute tape on kick-offs - on-sides, squibs, deep kicks.
It was madness to cover public buildings with open oil lamps and leave them to be looked after by natives -- this huge Taj hotel, dry as tinder outside, a complexity of dry wooden jalousies and balconies, was covered with these lights and floating flags -- how it didn't go off like a squib was a miracle. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
"I was told to kick a hard squib, shade left," Bryant said.
Evenwith films and photographs depicting flames burning with an impossible intensity, small explosions called "squibs" bursting out below the fall zone on the buildings andmany, many other circumstances called into questionall was just dismissed when the president headed off the investigation. Now It's Time To Clean Up The Mess Left Behind. The First Thing To Dispose Of Are The Criminals Who Made The Mess.
The outcome may prove a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
Another Big Bang or a damp squib? Times, Sunday Times
Note 43: Dr. Francisco Fernandez del Castillo, La cirugia mexicana en los siglos XVI y XVII, (New York: E.R. Squibb & Sons, 1936), p. 3. back Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Me, I rather felt that Rich had missed the big important news story, which is offered as a squib at the end.
He commented: 'It looks like something of a damp squib. The Sun
No 800-word opinion squib is going to substitute for several years of intensive training in a subject; nuance is inevitably going to get lost. Heterodoxy Redux
The initial fireworks turn into a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
The outcome may prove a damp squib. Times, Sunday Times
What unfolded was an embarrassing, boring, complete damp squib of a sporting spectacle. The Sun
Roman candles, squibs and rockets were already in the shops and the protesters had armed themselves.
After that little squib in today's Wall Street Journal, I thought it was time to let you know about the new book.
A damp squib - and he has had one or two of those - and this budget could be his last. Times, Sunday Times
Cska were fined 1000 leva because their fans threw squibs.
According to a press release from Bristol-Myers Squibb, the amount of isopropanol in the tablets used to keep the active ingredient in the drug in a crystalline state could change over time and affect the therapeutic levels of the active ingredient. Blister packs of blood thinner Coumadin recalled
His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant.
The Germans were particularly restless that night; kept on squibbing away whilst we were digging, and as it was some time before we had the sap deep enough to be able to stand upright without fear of a puncture in some part of our anatomy, it was altogether most unpleasant. Bullets & Billets

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