Example Sentences

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That night I am flinging here and there on the balcony, all mixed up about peoples and angels.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

No man in the country more desires to be rich than I; so don't fancy I am flinging away a fortune out of generosity.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

I am flinging away happiness for the sake of its mask.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

I am flinging down a gauntlet," she thought, "to snobbery and conservatism.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

But it is dangerous dust I am flinging in his eyes by being free and easy with her in this way.

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]