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

There in the moonshine that wench, Toad, and the dun horse were flinging out at each other as if for a wager, so that their hoofs dashed against the framework of the stable-door.

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

The men, too, had at last found a rope and were flinging it to him.

From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

It was the other men, the men who were flinging themselves into the column of light in the laboratory to be warped back to this plane, to be incorporated in his body.

From Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Simak, Clifford D.

He were flinging 'imself on his precious 'ead twenty times a day for a week after.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine