Example Sentences

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While that blackballs the firms, it does not ban all business dealings, the report added.

From Reuters • Mar. 25, 2022

I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Of all candidates at a club a known quarreller is more sure of blackballs now than even in the times when such a one provoked duels.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

Six blackballs shall exclude, and at least one-third of the members must vote in the affirmative to elect.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

Two blackballs are sufficient to cause the rejection of a candidate.

From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace