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For instance you need more than one inflated bag to support a 250 pound man, plus with more bags you have the added benefit of not having to constantly balance your weight against the movement of waves and wind it was quite frustrating at first because you spent so much time falling into the water and then trying to remount the trash bag air-ball that you had little time to enjoy yourself.

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` ` I saw him at the last minute, and I knew the ball was slippery, so I just tried to float it to him, '' said Butler, giving a coy description of the air-ball play.

USATODAY.com - Basketball - Milwaukee vs. Washington 2006

Illinois guard Cory Bradford saw his first shot miss everything, then heard "air-ball" chanted every time he touched the ball thereafter as he suffered through a 4-for-14 night from the field (as well as a couple of more airballs).

USATODAY.com - Home-court advantage paces Terrapins 2001

As fast as the air-ball scopes picked out these squads, their operators, each of whom was in ultronophone communication with a girl long-gunner at some spot in our line, would inform her of the location of the enemy unit, and the latter, after a bit of mathematical calculation, would send a rocket into the air which would come roaring down on, or very near that unit, and wipe it out.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

And in addition, it seemed, most of the Han military forces at Lo-Tan had been moved out of the city and advanced toward our lines before our air-ball attack.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

The little girl ran stretching her arms towards her air-ball, but it sank beneath the fountain.

Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

But surely this is rather an unprofitable ` air-ball. '

The Rosary 1909

Thought is the pent air-ball which can rive the planet, and the beauty which certain objects have for him, is the friendly fire which expands the thought, and acquaints the prisoner that liberty and power await him.

XVIII. Essays. Beauty. 1860 1909

Jane knew it was because it, bad become impreg - nated with moisture, but she did not say so, having no desire to contribute her quota of pats to this air-ball, or to encourage the superficial workings of his mind just then.

The Rosary 1909

The young alone knew how to deal with life, chasing it as a child chases a colored air-ball, and when it would sink, and fall and be inert, sending it with a gay blow soaring once more towards the blue.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907