- present participle of toss.
tossing
Example Sentences
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Not long ago, I watched a video of an angler tossing an urchin into the Atlantic surf and coming up with a nice-sized fluke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“The idea that tossing the desires of Pearl’s family into the ashcan is ‘just what journalists do’ is only a cover for indiscriminate National Enquirer logic,” he said in a June 2002 column.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
That includes her niece who has cleared the entire fridge of any produce, tossing it all into the rubbish, including what Michelle saw as a perfectly good watermelon.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
For the rest of that night Karli lay there tossing and turning, sometimes delirious, and all three of us took turns to try to cool him.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
