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Example sentences for "fling"

Lexicographically close words:
flimsiness; flimsy; flinch; flinched; flinching; flinging; flings; flint; flintlock; flintlocks
  1. She uttered a choking cry of joy, she saw Lestwick fling up his arms and spin round and then fall, fall crashing into the roadway, she watched him for a breathless moment as he lay there motionless.

  2. When the time came, and it would come, then she would fling all pretence to the winds, she would be his, he would open his arms to her, the ten years of hunger would be ended.

  3. He would wait till the night had completely gathered round and would then simply take the basket from Santobono's lap and fling it into some dark hollow without saying a word.

  4. And then I only had time to come and fling myself on the bed.

  5. But you have saved me, and again I feel sure that I shall win the victory, for I shall at last be able to fling myself at the feet of his Holiness the father of all truth and all justice.

  6. Twere better to fling his book on the ground like a dead leaf, better to deny it, better to cut it away like a dead limb that could serve no purpose whatever!

  7. If you had seen that child fling her arms about me, call me endearing names, and tell me that I should be godfather to her first son, so that he might bear my name and once again save Italy!

  8. Had it been possible, they would have torn away their flesh to pluck out their love-burnt hearts and fling them likewise to the demi-god.

  9. All I can do, then, is to fling myself at the feet of the Holy Father and entreat him to hear my defence.

  10. He had forgotten the lesser vengeance in the thirst for the greater,--that he had come to fling their misfortunes into the faces of the father and the son, and to tell them that the work was his.

  11. Crewe's first act was to open the shutters and the windows on the ground floor; his next to fling open the front and back doors, and the doors of the rooms.

  12. Crewe sprang at him as he came close, but the runner saw his danger in time to fling himself sideways.

  13. All this might have been assumed by a young man, but he would fling aside such disguises when believing he was under the eye of no one.

  14. The two traveled with so light baggage that they had only to fling their extra coats over their arms, the few minor articles being in their pockets, and descend the stairs.

  15. He saw him suddenly lower the gun and then fling it angrily to the ground.

  16. Nevertheless, he won each time, though he seemed to fling his cards down on the table without a look or thought.

  17. I shall ask Orrain to fling it through the window.

  18. Kirk saw one man fling a graphophone from a top window, then lower a mattress with a rope.

  19. Alfarez, livid of face and with shaking hand, fling a handful of similar coupons after the broken cane.

  20. Nor did he lack despite his rags many excellent things, for it is remembered that he ever loved caper sauce, going so far indeed in his honest indignation at its absence upon one occasion as to fling a leg of mutton at his wife.

  21. And hear what I have to say Before ould Salley brings me My bread and jug of tay;" and fling outrageous quips and cranks at cherubim and seraphim.

  22. We fling round our thoughts of a poet; How can we believe that the web which we weave Has no solid basis below it?

  23. If I could have my way, I would take her with me for a while, and then fling her, soiled and broken, to the lowest of my lackeys!

  24. The best are doomed to fling away their wealth of tenderness upon recipients who do not crave for it.

  25. A pittance for a schoolboy, which he will fling back into your face.

  26. And after that, to revenge this scorn, he would fling her in the gutter to rot there!

  27. But even then Mr Barber couldn't do anything but just climb out of the boat and fling himself down upon the sand, where he slept until next morning.

  28. He had never been in a bank in his life, much less been in one on business, and he had a naive and childlike desire to walk into one of the big banks down in Oakland and fling down his indorsed check for forty dollars.

  29. Mrs. Eleanor Bethune,' I wanted to fling my hat to the sky.

  30. Dinna fling awa' good fortune--dinna do it, Davie, my dear lad.

  31. If you leave that gate open I will have to fling a flower-pot at you!

  32. Thus I rend the tyrant's chain, And fling him back a boy's disdain!

  33. I hope you won't fling any bricks at me, and I shan't never fling any at any of ye.

  34. He had made assurance doubly sure, and his next quick move was to lean forward, blow out the candle, drop his pistol near the body, that had fallen heavily, and fling open the window.

  35. Yes, madame; I saw him fling something under the table, and found afterwards it was your key.

  36. For a fleeting moment he was tempted to fling all prudence to the winds and confess everything.

  37. In the season I fling in a bit of fruit sometimes.

  38. It is there that you may put the paper upon it, rather than fling the news on a dirty door-mat.

  39. Then why fling away your chances and be impossible and useless and an enemy to society, when society only wants to be your friend?

  40. When I want something to do, I can fling a line out of the window and fish in the river.

  41. Fling his money back in his face," said Abel.

  42. Jack Carleton, wringing the hand of Deerfoot, and feeling as though he would like to fling his arms around his neck and embrace him.

  43. Birds were singing and the brightness and cheerfulness which pervaded nature every where was like that which makes us fling our hats in air and shout for joy.

  44. If I owned such an arrangement the first thing I would do would be to fling it into the river.

  45. I have perfect confidence in you,--whatever you do is done well, and you are not the man to fling away your trump cards.

  46. She won't fling away the money that she had paid for fees.

  47. I'm not going to allow you to fling away such a good offer to remain with me.

  48. There was something so manly in George's speech, that, but for its final fling and personality, every man in the room would have crowded round him to shake hands; but what man ever coolly heard his judgment impeached?

  49. When I fling a Bay-State shawl over my shoulders, I am only taking a lesson from the climate that the Indian had learned before me.

  50. That man o' mine wud ramsh an' hamsh an' fling awa' mair than I cud save although I was a millionaire.

  51. I don't wish to get cross, so let's change the subject;" and Jo looked quite ready to fling cold water on the slightest provocation.

  52. Fling it out of the window, and don't bother any more about it.

  53. He had no thought of a melodramatic plunge, but some blind instinct led him to fling hat and coat into his boat, and row away with all his might, making better time up the river than he had done in any race.

  54. Do not take it to your palace hall to fling it on the stony floor which knows no pity for things that fade and are forgotten.

  55. Then he gave the cigar a fling into a brass bowl and put his head on his arms on the table.

  56. He heard his mother fling her bedroom blinds wide open to catch all the air.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affair; approach; assay; attempt; bat; bid; binge; boil; bolt; bout; bowl; bust; career; carousal; carouse; cast; catapult; celebration; charge; chase; chuck; chunk; clap; crack; curve; dance; dart; dash; debauch; deliver; effort; endeavor; escapade; essay; experiment; fire; fling; flip; flounce; fork; gambit; hasten; heave; hie; hump; hurl; hurry; hurtle; hustle; jerk; lance; lark; lash; lateral; launch; lick; move; offer; orgy; pass; peg; pelt; pitch; plank; plop; ploy; plump; plunge; plunk; post; precipitate; project; put; race; rampage; revel; rush; scamper; scoot; scour; scramble; scud; scurry; scuttle; send; serve; service; shoot; shot; shy; sinker; skedaddle; slam; slap; sling; snap; splurge; spree; stab; stampede; step; stroke; tear; throw; thrust; tilt; toot; toss; trial; try; undertaking; venture; whack