squibs
- present tense form of squib (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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So after some damp squibs in recent years, are we set for an unusually exciting end to the campaign at the bottom of the table?
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
Getting scant response beyond a few scattered news squibs, the CDC dropped the abuse issue entirely in its follow-up 2023 report.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023
Barnes writes with elegance and wit, probes motives with a novelist’s imagination but also a historian’s skepticism, plucking memorable formulations — enhanced by his own deft translations — from letters, journals and newspaper squibs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
However, digging today into The Seattle Times’ online archive, I find that social squibs often help reveal the story of a vintage edifice.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
