send flying

1. Cause to be knocked or scattered about, as in She bumped into the table and sent all the papers flying. This somewhat hyperbolic idiom was first recorded in 1789.

Example Sentences

Masks actually do stop the particles that we send flying through the air when we talk, and the virus that rides them.

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The Thunderbirds and Blue Angels that President Trump plans to send flying over the National Mall this Fourth of July will have some stiff competition from a group of 70 artists looking to spread their own messages across the nation’s skies.

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What about that car — not a drone, but a car with people in it — that we send flying through the air before crashing back to the ground after smashing it at full speed with our armored tank?

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Send flying column to bring away garrison at once.

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I was looking straight down the cross-bow groove at the steel bolt which another threat from me would send flying into my face.

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