Example Sentences

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“It’s a diaspora, you know, people have flung to different parts. I’m in Long Beach. My friends are in Studio City or Burbank or Downey. That is not Altadena.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

In the process, the black holes seem to have flung out nearly all the matter in their vicinity, leaving the core of the galaxy starved of stars and gas.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Cabinet officials have flung themselves across the country pitching the new law.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Anti-satellite weapons tests by China and India that have flung debris into orbit illustrate just how precarious space is.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2021

If he had fought her fairly, she could have flung his words back at him, but she could not catch mercury and hold it in her hands.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee