toss
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He bumped a pole while backing up, then missed a hoop toss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The tourists are hampered by Babar's hand injury, and stand-in captain Salman said he would have batted had he won the toss.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Add the drained pasta and a splash of reserved pasta water and toss to combine.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
In a clip on his personal TikTok, Burnham, thanks to clever editing, appears to toss up a mortarboard hat and catch a builder's helmet, as he promotes technical education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
We stare at each other and I smile, even while my stomach threatens to toss my one bite of Januka’s sandwich onto the floor.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Tom and Evan greet a new day by looking out at the bay, and the mayor tosses that telltale brooch into the water.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Bonnie loves Forky, but Forky sees himself as trash, not a toy, and tosses himself into the garbage at every opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Displaying as always her couture hauteur, Miranda, who doesn’t even remember Andy from her long-ago gig, tosses the former assistant in a terrible office and tells her she will inevitably fail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Taiwan has spent a whirlwind 15 months trying to win over the most unpredictable American leader in living memory as he tosses aside decades of precedent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Michelle tosses her long hair from one shoulder to the other.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
But innovation will remain a hard sell so long as users remain entranced by the big blur, where art becomes media, media becomes content, and content becomes time tossed into the wind.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
In Paris, onstage at the Accor Arena, Dean shimmied and swayed, tossed her hair with her hands and spurred the crowd to sing along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
A brief mention of a pizza-spinning girlfriend is tossed off immediately after, replaced by vivid stories about his first summer working at the real-life Flagship, given the pseudonym The Dreadnaught.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Muriel Spark and children’s literature may seem like an odd pairing, but one morning in the mid-1960s, the Scottish novelist tossed off three such stories in a London hotel room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Jonathan tossed the driftwood again and Moose plunged after it.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
The miller dreams not at what cost The quivering mill-stones hum and whirl, Nor how for every turn, are tost Armfuls of diamond and of pearl.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
In this sea of dread and doubt My poore barke is tost about; With storms and pirats far and wide, Death and woes on every side.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
The restless Soul 'midst Life's vain Tumults tost, Forgets her Woes, and ev'ry Care is lost.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
One wild gull in the offing lost, Wilder heart in my bosom tost.
From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice
On life's billow tost, The sport of changeful tide, we're well-nigh lost, And, like a frail boat on a stormy sea, We waver up and down uncertainly.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
“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
Soccer’s velvety, polarizing honcho had the planet begrudgingly tossing confetti at his custom Stan Smiths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
Sowing doubt, tossing seeds of chaos into the soil to see what grows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The night was cold because everything was wet, and I huddled in my nest, tossing about.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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