tost
Americanverb
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"Est-ce l� d�fense et illustration," he exclaims, "ou -183-plus tost offense et d�nigration?"
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias
We are the feeble, and bound In fetters of night and frost; Winged, but chained to the ground, In fevered slumbers tost.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
Allez tost par mons et par vaulx Faire jurer le nom de Dieu A garses et à garsonneaulx En toute place et en tout lieu.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian
I have been tost about hither and thither, as if on the waves of a stormy sea, and left ever and anon to perish without hope of rescue!
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
When Mary was in her fits, if the witch but so much as laid her hand upon her she was tost and shaken fearfully.
From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
