Squibs Sentence Examples

The election was marked by an amazing outflow of caricatures and squibs, by weeks of rioting in which Lord Hood's sailors fought pitched battles in St James's Street with Fox's hackney coachmen, and by the intrepid canvassing of Whig ladies.

For the Mazarinades or squibs written against him in Paris during the Fronde, see C. Moreau's Bibliographie des mazarinades (1850), containing an account of 4082 Mazarinades.

It was from here that he started writing and publishing political squibs, notably in 1733 State Dunces, inscribed to Alexander Pope.

There are rapid firing squibs, explosive squibs, armour-piercing squibs, guided squibs and even squibs that cause enemies to inflate.

The effect of artillery cannot be increased by putting squibs into cannon already loaded with grapeshot.

However, I have seen some pointless squibs as well as useful ones, and the book under review contains both types of squib.