Example Sentences

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And I desperately want somebody to talk about cop shows in 2020 and am tossing that up in the air in hopes of being “not it.”

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2020

I am not an engineer or a geophysicist, but I am tossing with this idea.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2010

It is less politically potent because it relates to things like "reconciliation" and other matters that require special terminology and quotation marks so readers will know I am tossing around technical terms.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2010

"I am tossing up every day of my life for every shilling that I have."

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

And I, who laugh at him, would leave this world to-day to be with him; for I am tossing at sea—he is in port.

From Peg Woffington by Reade, Charles