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hurl

verb as in throw forcefully

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The aboatia hooks his wiry tail around what looks like a hockey puck on the ground and hurls it at me.

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Veronika hurled the insult at her brothers, who had just done something dreadful.

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Alexander idly poked his sister with the sextant, and Cassiopeia clutched her abacus in a way that suggested it might soon be hurled across the room.

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Without thinking about the consequences, Penelope, too, hurled herself at the guard.

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Whether or not the unidentified whistle blower has an ax to grind is unknown to me, but plainly the email is not a list of wild accusations hurled by an unreliable gadfly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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