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Example sentences for "flings"

Lexicographically close words:
flinch; flinched; flinching; fling; flinging; flint; flintlock; flintlocks; flints; flinty
  1. He flings a yell of triumph back, And grimly smiles as on he flies To hear their disappointed cries; Yet lest they may too soon pursue, He urges on the flight anew.

  2. Beyond the range of bow, she flings The blade aside and fiercely brings Her wounded hero to her breast.

  3. Company K presses forward to the ground Company I has just left, the fours sweep around into line, the sabers and revolvers come out spontaneously, the men cheer and the Company flings itself forward.

  4. Panting violently, he flings himself at his door, and beats on it.

  5. Lukyn, thoroughly irritated by the officers, flings one of them aside and attempts to force his way out, when he and his party are promptly arrested for assault--Situation XVIII.

  6. When he travels he flings himself forward on a staff of fifty ells' length, with a pace as swift as a bird's flight.

  7. Then the fourth takes off the Devil's shoes and flings them to the end of the world, and off they all go with the princess.

  8. Now on the sea, Now on the shore, he flings his looks about; And yet again, the moon.

  9. Cuthbertson flings away with an exclamation of disgust.

  10. She flings the mantle on the round table; puts her bonnet on it, and sits down.

  11. She flings it on the table and sweeps back past Charteris, exclaiming contemptuously) You fool!

  12. He crosses to the easy chair near the revolving bookstand, and flings himself into it with determined hostility.

  13. I suppose we can, though if he flings his things about like this he doesn't deserve to have them returned to him, the blighter!

  14. He flings money about liberally, and he's always jumping into a motor and driving off very fast.

  15. At last all confusion, transfigured, trembling and sobbing, she flings herself at my feet and says that I am her saviour, and that she loves me better than anything in the world.

  16. The Aurora, rising rose-coloured from the waves of a West Indian sea, flings its sweetest smile athwart the savannas of Texas.

  17. The "star-spangled banner" suspended above Fort Inge, as it flouts forth from its tall staff, flings its fitful shadow over a scene of strange and original interest.

  18. Lilac thunbergia wreaths over-arching boughs, and passion-flower flings white and crimson garlands over turf flushed with the pink blossoms of the sensitive plant.

  19. The thick mantle of glossy foliage often hides the multitude of hooks, loops, and nooses which the pliant cane flings round branch and stem, gripped by long ropes of flexible fibre, hardening into thick coils, rigid and unyielding as iron.

  20. Climbing palms and massive creepers, splashed with orange, scarlet, and gold, tumble in masses from lofty branches, and the dazzling Bougainvillea flings curtains of roseate purple over wall and gateway.

  21. Yes, sleepless nature soundless flings Invisible grapples round the soul, Drawing her through the web of things To the primal end of her journeyings, Her ultimate and constant pole.

  22. At all events, he retorts on them when he can--unwisely perhaps, since those he flings mud at are only immortalized by the process.

  23. With what a lavish hand she flings beauty and luxury to her tropical children!

  24. Then the bright moon rises and flings her silver veil over the mountains, and lights up the plains, glittering and quivering upon the old gray stones, and a sound of military music is heard in the distance far and faint.

  25. Their timbered houses flame on high, Red flashing over half the sky; The blazing town flings forth its light, Lighting the cowards on their flight.

  26. But now, at the end, He flings off all disguise.

  27. She despises even that; she flings it at my head without a word.

  28. And Heaven flings it back to us," said Coventry, and trembled in every limb.

  29. It is the first letter I ever had from her," he says, the words rushing out broken and scarcely intelligible upon a storm of sobs, and so flings his head violently down upon the floor again in a new access of furious weeping.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.