blackballs
- present tense form of blackball (3rd person singular).
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
And the longer they have gone before the more likely he is to receive no blackballs.
From The Country House by Galsworthy, John
But once again, insensible to this detail, the jury seemed scarcely able to find blackballs enough to emphasize their refusal of the "Passage of the Beresina."
From International Short Stories: French by Cheneviere, A.
Two blackballs are sufficient to cause the rejection of a candidate.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace
