Example Sentences

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It will skim the inner edge of the main asteroid belt before looping back toward Earth for a gravity assist that will fling it out toward the Trojans.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023

It's a murkiness the Steelers will fling themselves into over the coming months for the first time in a generation.

From Fox News • Jan. 4, 2022

It’s a murkiness the Steelers will fling themselves into over the coming months for the first time in a generation.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2022

It’s a decision that will fling the lives of her self-involved cabal hither and thither, like raindrops being shaken off an umbrella.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

She will fling herself to the road and roll neatly away like a spy in an action movie.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti