thrown

Example Sentences

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You need to do the same thing you do in any movie where you have an emotional, bold line going that’s thrown at the beginning, that lands at the end.

From Los Angeles Times

That proved critical because officials — after what seemed like an eternity — ruled that Darnold had thrown a backward pass and the ball was live when Charbonnet picked it up.

From Los Angeles Times

"The material was thrown up into the atmosphere, and was globally transported and deposited in a broadly distributed layer that we earlier have described."

From Science Daily

As opposed to this threatening metaphorical comet, the Northern “Star Spangled Atmosphere,” Lemen wrote, was “well regulated in its revolutions” and “its universal laws are too well Founded to be over thrown.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Plans by the commission chief to fly to Brazil this weekend to sign the agreement were thrown in jeopardy Wednesday after Italy joined fellow heavyweight France in seeking a delay.

From Barron's