muff
Example Sentences
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Amen Ogbongbemiga recovered the muff to give the Chargers their excellent starting position.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023
In 1914, the suffragist Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery with a hatchet concealed in her muff, then slashed a Velázquez nude in protest against the imprisonment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022
But the Giants committed a delay-of-game penalty and then punted, resulting in Johnson’s muff.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2020
Tretiak’s vulnerability is long shots, and his muff of another one helped the Americans tie it with one second left in the period.
From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2020
I took up my muff and walked on.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
