Example Sentences
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Displaying as always her couture hauteur, Miranda, who doesn’t even remember Andy from her long-ago gig, tosses the former assistant in a terrible office and tells her she will inevitably fail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Denford’s steadily growing “nobody cares” audience regularly tosses sticks of dynamite into that vortex in the name of protecting our sanity.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Taiwan has spent a whirlwind 15 months trying to win over the most unpredictable American leader in living memory as he tosses aside decades of precedent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
To help a shivering Cathy, Heathcliff rises from his wooden seat, smashes it on the floor and tosses the pieces into the fireplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
She tears off a bite of burger and tosses it to a brown-and-white mutt with oversize ears.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
