were flinging
- past progressive of fling.
Example Sentences
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Moving her lips rapidly, she held her rosary tightly and recited each Hail Mary with a desperate gravity, as though she were flinging anvils at the gates of Heaven.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Flying ants and gnats of every description were flinging themselves at the electric lights, and a bat circled monotonously round the ceiling.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
Men followed behind them heaping the hay in piles, and across the mown strip of sloo more men, almost naked, were flinging the last of the mounds into a waggon.
From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold
In wave after wave it came, growing brighter and brighter, as though some gigantic hand on that mountain top were flinging out the liquid radiance into the night.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
Hounds were flinging themselves across, bursting louder and louder into cry, proclaiming that they were on his line.
From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.
