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send flying

Idioms

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

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And most people who carry guns also carry bullets for those guns, as bullets are the primary projectile that guns send flying through the air.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2026

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

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2020

The Air Force will send flying laboratories into each hurricane.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was eating his heart out at not having a horse to put against hers, at not being able to send flying the pebbles on the hill tracks as she did.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

The tight little ball had at any rate rolled away from her for ever—quite like one of the other balls that Ida's cue used to send flying.

From What Maisie Knew by James, Henry

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