toss
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Working with franchisees, chain officials diverted supply trucks and mobilized field teams to toss cases of lettuce linked to the outbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Pour the mixture over the oyster crackers and toss until evenly coated.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her ball toss went awry, her footwork was a step slower, and she was more agitated, at one point screaming in frustration after a netted forehand.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
During the tournament, a new tradition has also emerged: Fans gather and toss a person into the air, as is traditionally done with a groom at a wedding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
As I remove the ball from my glove to toss it back to Cala, it feels like it’s on fire.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
She delights in covering her hair with a white shirt she tosses over her shoulders with mock-Breck-ad delight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
Andie tosses a few flirtatious barbs across the checkout counter, inquiring if Blane will be paying with cash or an American Express Platinum card.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
To help a shivering Cathy, Heathcliff rises from his wooden seat, smashes it on the floor and tosses the pieces into the fireplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Uncle Ty tosses a fireball, and with a snap of their fingers, the Manifestor puts it out.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Similar to other leafy greens, lettuce leaves can be tossed, stirred and cooked in hot oil.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
We liked working together, and he saw that we had a similar wavelength, and he just kind of tossed it up, like, ‘Hey, how would you feel about scoring a feature?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Take Rian Johnson, whose deal with Netflix has led to his “Knives Out” films being relegated to tiny theatrical release windows in limited markets before being tossed onto the streamer.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
"The bison hooked him with his left horn on his hip and tossed him in the air," Mike Macleod, who recorded the incident, told the Cowboy State Daily, a local paper.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
She tossed her backpack into the seat next to Bat and then slid into the front seat, slamming the door.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
The fragile leaf, by tempest tost, Is scarcely worth a passing thought; The brook is crossed, and then is lost; There let it lie, a thing of naught.
From Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems by Chant, Joseph Horatio
We tost off a Bottle of honest Port, which we relisht with a broil’d Chicken.
From Patrick Henry by Tyler, Moses Coit
We are the feeble, and bound In fetters of night and frost; Winged, but chained to the ground, In fevered slumbers tost.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
When Mary was in her fits, if the witch but so much as laid her hand upon her she was tost and shaken fearfully.
From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
The Hector come from out the fight in arms Achilles lost, The Hector that on Danaan decks the Phrygian firebrands tost.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
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
“A run-of-the-mill interview is almost entirely non-predictive, like tossing a coin,” Ferrari said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 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
Tristan Peters hit a sharp ground ball up the first-base line, and first baseman Freddie Freeman made a sliding stop, tossing the ball to Yamamoto at first to complete the play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
We slapped at them, tossing them up on the bank.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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