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Example sentences for "flung"

Lexicographically close words:
flumes; flumina; flumine; fluminis; flummery; flunk; flunked; flunkey; flunkeyism; flunkeys
  1. Harry flung his arms round her, a thing he would never have done in the public street if he had not been girlish inside at the time.

  2. Then he took a great stone and flung it in upon her and crushed her head, so the poor thing breathed out her soul.

  3. Then he was tired, so he flung himself under an oak to rest.

  4. My hands bled, but I did not feel the pain; I tore the corpse to shreds, and flung it back into the pit.

  5. Many men flung themselves overboard, but Skallagrim's men took to the boat and rowed about, killing all they found.

  6. In a few hours the operation was complete, and we flung the ashes out of the window into the moat.

  7. Pernette, however, wrenched the weapon from his tiny hand, flung him down and gashed his throat, so that he died of the wound.

  8. The Commodore was flung into the air by the explosion, and fell back on deck with such violence that his leg was broken.

  9. Finding her sound and whole, Perry backed his maintop sail, and flung out his signal for close action.

  10. Taillefer had soaked with tears, and flung it on to the chimney-piece.

  11. Vautrin flung down a franc piece on the table.

  12. She turned to Eugene; there were tears in her eyes as she flung her arms about his neck, and drew him towards her in a frenzy of gratified vanity.

  13. At thirty you will be a Justice with twelve hundred francs a year (if you have not flung off the gown for good before then).

  14. Just as he spoke, the Countess came back again and flung herself on her knees before him.

  15. Let me embrace you," and he flung his arms around the student's neck.

  16. The two grave diggers flung in several spadefuls of earth, and then stopped and asked Rastignac for their fee.

  17. Sylvie took him by the arm, supported him upstairs, and flung him just as he was, like a package, across the bed.

  18. He sealed the note, and begged the porter to give it to Therese for her mistress; but the man took it to the Baron de Nucingen, who flung the note into the fire.

  19. Father Goriot stepped out first and flung ten francs to the man with the recklessness of a widower returning to bachelor ways.

  20. Nucingen flung her arms about her, kissed her tenderly, and held her sister to her heart.

  21. A few tears, like the last grains of incense flung upon the sacred alter fire of the hearth, fell from his eyes.

  22. Ajuda flung himself back in the carriage, were like a lightning flash and a thunderbolt for her; she walked back again with a deadly fear gnawing at her heart.

  23. Delphine flung her arms about him, but there was no passion in that wild embrace.

  24. Teata waved her hand at us from the brook, and flung her heavy hair backward over her shoulder as she went on with her task.

  25. Many others were flung on the sward, and more rose again to the dance, singing and shouting and demanding more rum.

  26. Kekela followed her, and I made several attempts, but each time was flung back, bruised and breathless.

  27. The rain-swollen stream, cramped in the narrow passage, flung itself foaming high on the spray-wet cliffs, and dashed in a mighty torrent into a deep howl riven out of the solid granite twenty feet below.

  28. They were but a moment late, for I have a hole in my head into which they shot a nail, and I have this crack in my head upon which they flung a stone.

  29. Upon this mated pair a band of sharks had flung themselves to seize the infant.

  30. Another was flung high in air by a blow of the mother's tail.

  31. He ran, and he came to me in the pool where I had flung myself.

  32. Inflamed by the rum, they flung themselves into it with such abandon as I have never seen, and I saw a kamaaina in Hawaii and have seen Caroline, Miri, and Mamoe, most skilled dancers of the Hawaiian Islands.

  33. It flung over the broken remnants of the glory and the dream its lovely cloak of verdure and of flower.

  34. He screamed thrice, so that all the valley heard him, and then he flung her into the pool to drown.

  35. Suddenly Caroline of the Marquesas and Mamoe of Moorea, most beautiful dancers of the quays, flung themselves into the upaupahura, the singing dance of love.

  36. I fell asleep even upon it, and woke in the sea, with the chief, who had flung himself to my rescue, clutching my hair.

  37. The Hapaas, fighting with stones flung from slings and with spears, had taken refuge, to the number of four or five thousand, in a fortress on the brow of a hill.

  38. He flung himself face down upon the grass, Alone between the living and the dead, And wept and prayed beside the lonely grave Until in sorrow's slumber sunk his head.

  39. The step was moreover a bold challenge flung at the English, whose King claimed also to be King of France, and the challenge had the proper threatening ring coming swiftly upon the victory of Orleans.

  40. It thus often happened that the lads of Maxey, while guarding their cattle, came to the borders of the commune of Domremy and flung insults at the little shepherds of the latter village.

  41. Her baton was in her hand, and on her shoulder was flung a short mantle in which she meant to wrap herself on her return, in order to prevent being recognized and thus becoming the object of popular ovations.

  42. As I spoke I flung a coin into the strange-shaped cap which he was holding before me, then putting spurs to my horse I rode quickly forward.

  43. No sooner was their game ended than they pelted each other with their playthings, then in a mad frolic lifted handfuls of gold dust and flung it each in the other's eyes.

  44. At these words Undine, holding a lamp high in one hand, flung the door wide open with the other.

  45. When at length the fruit was placed on the table, the doors of the banqueting-room were flung open.

  46. She, who had but seldom flung her arms around them, embraced them now, and thanked them with tears in her eyes for all their care.

  47. He drew his wife back, that she might not be drenched, but as he did so a white spray was flung after them which wet them both to the skin.

  48. He flung himself on his bed, and soon fell into a feverish sleep.

  49. I would have retreated to the stair-case, but the door of it was occupied by the phantom figure of an esquire, who rudely flung a gauntlet in my face.

  50. Xarisa mounted behind the Moor, on his powerful steed; they left the castle walls before daybreak, nor did they pause, until they arrived at the gate of the castle of Allora, which was flung wide to receive them.

  51. The other clerks winked at each other shrewdly, and dispersed to their several places, and poor Don Fernando, thus left to himself, flung out of the office, almost driven wild by these repeated perplexities.

  52. In that secret, mysterious way which was a feature of the troublous times, both were recognized targets for other missiles than stones flung by dimpled baby hands.

  53. Fling them here," said the king; whereupon they were flung to the other crowned heads, under the feet of Lucifer.

  54. At this moment, a little grey-headed hobgoblin, who had heard that a living man was arrived, flung himself at my feet, weeping abundantly.

  55. She had a claim derived from getting flung over a pony's head and landed on a rock-pile.

  56. Suddenly the Socialists burst through the gates and stormed up through the ministerial benches, and a man in a red cravat reached up and snatched the documents that lay on the President's desk and flung them abroad.

  57. I said to myself, when he comes to be examined again, he will be flung over, of course; so it will be simple a harmless act of charity to ease his fall as much as I can.

  58. My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee.

  59. To this, Deputy Iro flung out this retort: 'Soda-water at the Wimberger!

  60. I flung myself upon his poor insulted form and cried my grief out upon his breast while my father and all my family scoffed at me and heaped threats and shameful epithets upon him.

  61. Here was a lifetime of devotion flung away for the facile addresses of this interloper.

  62. Ruth rose and flung herself into his arms.

  63. He flung the pistol over on the cot by the window.

  64. When Still flung away his mask, he went as far as he dared.

  65. He flung her from him roughly and stood for a moment lost in thought.

  66. When Thurston was through, he flung the paper down and sat back in his chair, thinking intently.

  67. There were many gibes flung at the new voters by the disfranchised spectators, but they were mainly good-natured.

  68. He held out his hand, and, having shaken hands with the Captain, flung himself into a seat.

  69. Mrs. Welch took it not as a legal notice, but as a declaration of war, and when that gage was flung down she was ready to accept it.

  70. But his father continued to rage and grumble so long that Sponsken got tired of hearing him at last, and flung off to bed in a sulk.

  71. Then the little girl drew out the comb and flung it behind her.

  72. And he was as good as his word, for, picking up a large stone, he flung it with all his strength, and it was more than a quarter of an hour before it fell again at their feet.

  73. I had no other place to put him, so I flung him through the window!

  74. Often they carry stretchers--now and then a stretcher with the empty folds of a flag flung across it.

  75. To stand up straight on one's feet, strong, easy, without the surging of any physical sensation, by a bedside whose coverings are flung here and there by the quivering nerves beneath it .

  76. Bolts, in the shape of sudden, whimsical orders, are flung by an Almighty whom one does not see.

  77. He paused by the pillar, as I knew he would, and I busied myself with an added rush and hurry, an added irritating noise of spoons flung down.

  78. The fluctuations of a night stormy for her, hitherto unknown, had sunk her to this trance, in which she lay like a creature flung on shore by the waves.

  79. Roland flung his arm round his friend's neck, and said, 'Forgive me.

  80. He had really forgotten his knowledge of her character--what much he knew--in the dust of the desperation flung about her by Nevil Beauchamp.

  81. And procuring the necessary ropes, he flung them over some limbs and all hauled the carcasses up, Tom, of course, being excused from the task, because of his wounded arm.

  82. In a few minutes the teacher had led the way into Captain Putnam's office, and with a final pinch of their arms, which made Tubbs cry out once more with pain, he flung the pair away from him.

  83. In 1762, stones weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, were flung from a church in Cornwall, to a distance of one hundred and eighty feet.

  84. The stars and stripes were flung to the breeze.

  85. A penholder broke between his fingers and he flung it irritably into the wastebasket.

  86. By contrast, from above, the far-flung suburbs seemed dark and somber.

  87. Then, turning sharply on his heel, he flung back, "Advise the Secretary of War that I shall report to him in person in less than one hour.

  88. And after a moment the cry would be flung back, as by the spirit of Leather-Stocking, from the heights of the steep woods and rocky faces of the hill.

  89. He leaped into the air, flung his hat on the ground, struck a pugilistic attitude, and began to dance around the ambassador, squaring off with his fists, as though preparing a knockout blow for the French Republic.

  90. It was lighted by tall, deeply-recessed windows, against which the branches of the evergreens outside flung their waving shadows.

  91. He took up the girl and flung her to the bottom of the bed, and in a moment threw himself across the bed, and laid hold of witness by the head.

  92. From the manner of this functionary the mob were apprehensive that the head was to be flung in the midst of them, and they rushed back in great precipitation.

  93. Their march was observed, however, to be hesitating and wavering; numbers flung away their arms and returned home; and at length the main body became so disheartened that they fairly took to their heels and disappeared.

  94. He walked to the edge of the platform and flung the ring of keys down toward the pavement of the fort.

  95. Bartholomew seized a burning stick from the fire in the boucan and flung it upward, onto the veranda of the "dovecote.

  96. The response was then carried by voice vote and sent back to Calvert, a gauntlet flung across the admiral's face.

  97. She examined it, then flung it aside, its claws flailing.

  98. He flung the lace back in Jeremy's direction.

  99. Whittington was knocked sprawling by the surge of the crowd, as straw hats were flung into the air.

  100. He flung his grapple upward, then gestured at the men.

  101. Briggs seized the leather packet and flung it to the ground.

  102. Suddenly the horror of it all swept over him and he flung down the pike in disgust.

  103. He crumpled the paper into his pocket, then leaped up as he flung his straw hat into the air.

  104. Her eyes flashed as she flung a handful of water.

  105. Katherine felt her feet give way, and the next thing she knew she had been flung sideways against the hard rope shrouds.

  106. He brandished the pike once more for emphasis, then flung it down and seized a charge-holder on his bandolier.

  107. He held the flaming bundle above his head a moment longer, while he intoned a verse in praise of Ogun, and then flung it against the thatched wall behind him, where it splayed against a post and disintegrated.

  108. He flung the empty flask crashing into the fireplace, rose, and moved down the table.

  109. He ducked the handful of water she flung at him and dived head first into the sea.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flung back; flung himself; flung myself