Flung Sentence Examples

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  • A gust of wind flung snow into her face.

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  • She flung her arms around him.

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  • Katie flung herself on the bed.

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  • It's enough to have your pedigree flung in your face by those saucy dragonettes.

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  • Sasha flung his arm around.

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  • I dropped to the ground as he yanked the phone from its base and flung it across the room.

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  • Relief flooded her, and she flung her arms around his neck.

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  • Rainy paced, flung himself into a chair, paced again.

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  • A hood went over her head, and she was flung across someone's shoulder hard enough to make her ribs flare with pain.

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  • Rhyn accepted the book, glanced at it, and flung it into the ocean.

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  • The sound of footsteps running down the hall drew her attention, and she flung herself backwards as the maid with the butcher knife tried to cut her.

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  • His knife blade grazed her once and turned into a feather that he flung away.

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  • Gabriel obeyed, and Katie flung a shoe at the domineering man with the jewel-toned eyes.

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  • She forced herself to continue to the apartment's entrance and flung open the door, revealing a hall with auxiliary lighting reflecting off a white marble floor.

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  • With each name, she flung a fish at him.

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  • Like Kris had flung him aside to make way for a mortal.

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  • He flung the door open and shoved the healer into the room, ignoring the two surprised occupants of the chamber as he closed the door without entering.

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  • She flung a shoe at him hard, then a second.

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  • Her emotions crippled her, and she flung herself on the bed, sobbing.

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  • Jade had freed himself during his thrashing and launched out of the door, machete in hand as he flung himself on Kris.

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  • He grabbed Kiera with the other arm and flung her over his shoulder.

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  • Kiera bounded away from him and flung her arms around Evelyn, who gave a startled laugh and hugged her back.

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  • The prisoner tucked her behind him with one hand and met the first attacker's blow, blocked it, and flung him down the hall.

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  • Caught between consciousness and darkness, she hung limply for a long time, until the man holding her flung her onto a hard floor.

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  • It opened, and she flung herself against the second door.

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  • Jackson flung him against the wall like a rag doll.

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  • Heat rolled over him as he was flung towards the weed-infested parking lot.

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  • A man stood near the boulders hedging the cliff, crazed as he flung his arms around and screamed.

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  • What was so important she flung herself off a cliff to get it?

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  • Dan shook his head and flung himself down across from him, retrieving the sealed vault.

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  • Lana sprang up from her corner of the couch and flung her arms around Elise.

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  • Her heart leapt as Brady was flung out of the helicopter.

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  • Lana snatched the uniforms and flung them around her room.

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  • The terror on Lana's face was fresh in his thoughts, and he heard her scream again as he was flung from the helo, before it hit the water.

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  • Another explosion flung her to the ground.

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  • Deidre paused beside the bubbling nest of beetles the size of her hand.  Katie watched as she picked up one, peered at it and then flung it.  Deidre giggled.

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  • Toby gasped.  Realization broke over Katie and with it, joy.  She flung her arms around Deidre and hugged the small woman tightly.

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  • Rhyn flung one knife, catching a demon in the eye.  The demon that had been ready to run Kris through dropped, and Kris shot him an angry look.

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  • Her mother made it to her feet and flung something at her.

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  • The vamp growled again and flung down the free weights.

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  • He flung open the door and slammed it behind him.

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  • He retrieved the book and flung it away from him.

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  • She flung her arms around Jessi.

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  • The crags which he flung at Britannia did indeed graze the stern and graze the prow of her craft.

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  • She would have flung Scotland with England into the hell fire of Spanish Catholicism rather than forgo the faintest chance of personal revenge.

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  • It was urged by anti-Copernicans that a body flung upward or cast downward would, if the earth were in motion, be left behind by the rapid translation of the point from which it started; Galileo proved on the contrary that the reception of a fresh impulse in no way interfered with the movement already impressed, and that the rotation of the earth was insensible, because shared equally by all bodies at its surface.

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  • Her father flung open the door and strode up the incline.

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  • The vamp snatched her out of the air and flung her to Jule.

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  • She wiped her mouth again and flung the rag against the wall, chest heaving.

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  • Traci flung her arms around her, her fear fresh on her face.

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  • He flung away the weapons and the trench coat.

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  • She smiled and flung herself into his arms.

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  • It was past sunrise, so she rose and flung off her bed covers.

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  • He flung open his arms, giving her his whole body as a target.

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  • His head throbbed and his body ached, as if he'd flung himself against the rocky wall.

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  • When he'd gone, Sofi flung off the blankets.

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  • His green eyes flashed as he flung himself from the horse.

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  • At the festival of Apollo at Leucas a victim flung himself from a rock into the sea, like the Hyperborean who was tired of life.

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  • Travelling generally in companies, and carrying a simple outfit, these Celtic pioneers flung themselves on the continent of Europe, and, not content with reproducing at Annegray or Luxeuil the willow or brushwood huts, the chapel and the round tower, which they had left behind in Derry or in the island of Hy (Iona), they braved the dangers of the northern seas, and penetrated as far as the Faroes and even far distant Iceland.

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  • The king met Elijah with the reproach that he was "the troubler of Israel," which the prophet boldly flung back upon him who had forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baalim.

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  • She flung a knife against the wall in anger then strode out of the Black God's chamber to the ground floor.

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  • Frustrated, he flung the body down again.

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  • It flung her against a tree then dropped her.

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  • She flung a knife.

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  • Jenn ducked at the sight of purple lightning, stunned when he caught it midair and flung it back towards the Other.

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  • Already he felt as if an age had passed since he was flung into the darkness.

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  • She was not bleeding, for which she was grateful, but her body ached as if it had been flung around a stone room for hours.

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  • The shock of the shake accompanying the shout flung her deadened senses awake.

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  • He unfastened the belt around her waist and flung it into the darkness.

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  • Vara was flung to the floor of the stables.

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  • They flung him on the ground.

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  • She flung the words at him.

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  • She hurried the last few steps to him and flung her arms around him.

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  • His chief financial expedient was to debase, or rather ruin, the currency by issuing copper tokens redeemable in better times; but it was no fault of his that Charles XII., during his absence, flung upon the market too enormous an amount of this copper money for Gertz to deal with.

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  • By one of his swift and secret flank marches he placed his corps on the flank of the enemy, and on the 2nd of May flung them against the Federal NI.

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  • At his birth Judas was enclosed in a chest and flung into the sea; picked up on a foreign shore, he was educated at the court until a murder committed in a moment of passion compelled his flight.

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  • Their hostility to the Huguenots forced on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and their war against their Jansenist opponents did not cease till the very walls of Port Royal were demolished in 1710, even to the very abbey church itself, and the bodies of the dead taken with every mark of insult from their graves and literally flung to the dogs to devour.

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  • The finest of the captives was thrown down and fire kindled on his breast by the wooden drill of the priest; then the victim's heart was torn out, and his body flung on the pile kindled with the new flame.

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  • After a severe fight, Anang-pal's elephants were so terror-struck by the fire-missiles flung amongst them by the invaders that they turned and fled, the whole army retreating in confusion and leaving Mahmud master of the field.

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  • Meanwhile the preparations for war had been continued, and on the 1st of June Austria flung down the gage by declaring her intention of submitting the whole question of the duchies to the federal diet and of summoning a meeting of the Holstein estates.

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  • When the vast field of the East was opened to Hellenic enterprise and the bullion of its treasuries flung abroad, fortunes were made on a scale before unparalleled.

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  • The monks whose task it was to perfect the adaptation of the alphabet to the dialects of Egypt and translate the Scriptures out of the Greek, flung away all pagan traditions.

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  • Then he flung over a cliff the wicked Sciron, who used to kick his guests into the sea, while perforce they washed his feet.

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  • In reply Theseus took the bullocks out of their cart and flung them higher than the roof of the temple.

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  • But they were flung back to the lower slopes of the Quarry Ravine by the leading French regiment sent by Bosquet.

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  • Into the struggle the Hydriotes flung themselves with rare enthusiasm and devotion, and the final deliverance of Greece was mainly due to the service rendered by their fleets.

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  • On finding his body next morning on the shore, Hero flung herself into the waves.

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  • When Dionysus leaped into the sea to escape from the pursuit of Lycurgus, king of the Thracian Edones, and Hephaestus was flung out of heaven by Zeus, both were kindly received by Thetis.

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  • Palmerston, irritated at her Egyptian policy, flung himself into the arms of the northern powers, and the treaty of the 15th of July 1840 was signed in London without the knowledge or concurrence of France.

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  • In November 1660 he was flung into Bedford gaol; and there he remained, with some intervals of partial and precarious liberty, during twelve years.

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  • The deed was done while the duke was superintending the building of the above-mentioned citadel, and his corpse was flung into the street (December loth, 1547).

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  • Burke always accepted the rebuke, and flung himself into vindication of the sense, substance and veracity of what he had written.

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  • The humiliation of the king and queen after their capture at Varennes; the compulsory acceptance of the constitution; the plain incompetence of the new Legislative Assembly; the growing violence of the Parisian mob, and the ascendency of the Jacobins at the Common Hall; the fierce day of the 20th of June (1792), when the mob flooded the Tuileries, and the bloodier day of the 10th of August, when the Swiss guard was massacred and the royal family flung into prison; the murders in the prisons in September; the trial and execution of the king in January (1793); the proscription of the Girondins in June, the execution of the queen in October - if we realize the impression likely to be made upon the sober and homely English imagination by such a heightening of horror by horror, we may easily understand how people came to listen to Burke's voice as the voice of inspiration, and to look on his burning anger as the holy fervour of a prophet of the Lord.

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  • When Myrtilus claimed his promised reward, Pelops flung him into the sea near Geraestus in Euboea, and from his dying curse sprang those crimes and sorrows of the house of Pelops which supplied the Greek tragedians with such fruitful themes (Sophocles, Electra, 505, with Jebb's note).

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  • Sometimes they are very uneven and jagged (apalhraun), consisting of blocks of lava loosely flung together in the utmost confusion.

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  • Despite the signal failure of the first crusade, when he had been taken prisoner; despite the protests of his mother, of his counsellors, and of the pope himself, he flung himself into the mad adventure of Tunis.

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  • The door tore off, and Darian was flung out, his grip around the Oracle tight enough to take her with him.

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  • The gravity of her features fell away as she tilted her head, smiled then flung her arms around Deidre in a tight hug.

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  • He tugged on loose judo pants and flung himself on his back on the bed nearest the door.

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  • The branches flung upwards, snatching the legs and wings of the demons.  Toby heard a demon shriek as its wings were torn from its body.  The tree lowered Toby to the ground.  He looked up once more, turned and ran through the jungle, leaving the trees to fight off the demons.

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  • She pulled two food cubes free and flung one towards the demons then dropped one where she stood.  Turning, she grabbed Deidre's arm and ran hard.  As before, nothing happened at first then the earth roared as it split apart.  The ground trembled, throwing both of them down.

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  • Before Katie could respond, one of the nearby trees snatched her and flung her into the air.  She soared above the treetops and let out a cry when she started to fall.  A branch caught her and flung her back up.  She saw Deidre and Toby sailing through the air in a similar fashion.  The second branch almost missed her and snatched her around the leg before throwing her back up.

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  • He crossed to the second bedchamber and flung open the door to the wardrobe that smelled of blood.

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  • He all but flung her onto a horse, and she righted herself, joining a long caravan of well-armed men.

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  • Carolyn has also become a bit of a globetrotter and jets off to various far flung destinations with her mom.

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  • No matter how far flung its peoples may be, subtle lines of interconnection span the globe, creating unity between them.

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  • Cycling through the furthest flung outposts of the Sound of Now.

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  • They also throw the javelin, using hunting spears that are flung huge distances through the bush.

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  • The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere.

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  • He hastily flung some brushes into his tool kit, then straightened up and gazed at news undertaker wwe her with deep compassion.

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  • She flung herself into Lamennais's cause and wrote many unpaid articles in his organ, Le Monde, but they finally split on the questions of labour and of women's rights, and she complained that Lamennais first dragged her forwards and then abused her for going too fast.

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  • The Byzantine Doge Giovanni Galbaio attacked Grado, the see of the Francophil Patriarch Giovanni, captured it, and flung the bishop from the tower of his palace.

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  • Public indignation was aroused by what were known as the " Bulgarian atrocities," and Gladstone flung himself into the agitation against Turkey with characteristic zeal.

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  • Another ritual, fascinating for the glimpse it affords of very old-world thought, is that of the Diipolia, the yearly sacrifice to Zeus Polieus on the Acropolis at Athens.6 In this an ox was slaughtered with ceremonies unique in Greece; the priest who slew him fled and remained in exile for a period, and the axe that was used was tried, condemned and flung into the sea; the hide of the slain ox was stuffed with hay, and this effigy of the ox was yoked to the plough and feigned to be alive.

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  • A suspicious observer might have detected something ominous in the first act of his reignthe arrest and attainder of his fathers unpopular ministers, Empson and Dudley, whose heads he flung to the people in order to win a moments applause.

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  • Large cushions and rugs had been flung about and the smell of strong incense or perfume filled the air.

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  • A wood fire burned upon the hearth, and two waxen tapers flung their light on a mirror, set in richly chased silver.

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  • He has always flung a little litter in the past, but now it's so bad he's almost completely emptying his box every day.

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  • More insults were flung during interviews, until MTV finally put The Hills cast on "media blackout," keeping them from providing further interviews.

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  • It can get flung up from the tires of the vehicle in front of you, or even your own vehicle.

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  • The gravel on the road gets flung up and can create clouds of dust with particles a large as grains of sand.

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  • It will completely obliterate any cube it hits plus some of the surrounding cubes, and cubes on top of nearby cubes will be flung into the air.

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  • Sean's head flung backward, but Britney's bodyguard saved the tot from serious injury.

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  • Since everything is so highly charged between them, there is the possibility of this becoming a destructive relationship if accusations are flung and flirting is indulged.

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  • The tape started to surface in places far flung from the SW United States.

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  • The crab traps are constantly being flung about and the machinery used to haul and lower traps into the water have moving parts that swing and slide around.

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  • He flung water from himself, furious to have his Travel ended prematurely.

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  • The woman flung open the door to the garage and ran into it.

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  • He muttered a curse and flung his door open.

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  • He flung his head back, trying to remember the last time he'd felt some semblance of peace.

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  • He flung one of his knives at the tree line, not caring if he hit anything or not.

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  • She dressed quickly to avoid comments on either her collar or her scars and flung herself into her bunk, reminded of her cell with Lankha.

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  • He flung off clothing soaked with blood, stripping with his back to her without one concern about her watching.

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  • He stared at her, and she flung the plate at him, furious at his lack of reaction.

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  • They stopped at a wooden door, which the woman flung open.

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  • He.d only spent one night there last month before Sasha flung him to the side in favor of a demoness.

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  • She crossed to it, took a deep swig, then flung it against the door.

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  • She raced forward through the men, not caring what they thought, and flung herself into Mansr's arms with enough force to drive him back a step.

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  • Jonny flung off his coat and boots then sat in a chair in the living area, brooding.

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  • He flung himself down into the oversized chair and lifted his boots onto the ottoman.

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  • The knife at her neck lifted, and she was flung away from him, pushed into the wall.

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  • He lifted it over his shoulders and snapped its body over his knee then flung the man-like creature aside.

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  • The next time he emerged, it was to catch the body of an Other that Darian flung over his head.

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  • Ashley took one look at him, hesitated, and flung herself into Xander's arms.

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  • Infuriated, they seized and flung Matvyeev into the square below, where he was hacked to pieces by their comrades.

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  • A hard piece of bread, flung at random in the Commons Hall, struck his left eye and destroyed the sight.

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  • The advantage of position being thus lost, the Spanish infantry rose and flung itself on the attackers; the landsknechts and the French bands were disordered by the fury of the counterstroke, being unaccustomed to deal with the swift, leaping, and crouching attack of swordsmen with bucklers.

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  • He treated the question at issue as one of pure logic, and disliking the Reformers, the right of private judgment which Protestants claimed, and the somewhat prosaic uniformity of the English Church, he flung himself into a general campaign against Protestantism in general and the Anglican form of it in particular.

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  • The folly of the monarchs of the Holy Alliance in Europe gained for the writings of Montholon and Las Cases (that of Gourgaud was not published till 1899) a ready reception, with the result that Napoleon reappeared in the literature of the ensuing decades wielding an influence scarcely less potent than that of the grey-coated figure into whose arms France flung herself on his return from Elba.

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  • No wonder that Bohemund flung himself in revenge on the Eastern empire in 1 1 08 - only, however, to meet with a humiliating defeat at Durazzo.

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  • The solitary and desolate frontier life became now more dreary than ever; he flung himself into politics the only outside resource open to him, and his long and eventful public career began.

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  • The legend that Athena, observing in the water the distortion of her features caused by playing that instrument, flung it away, probably indicates that the Boeotians whom the Athenians regarded with contempt, used the flute in their worship of the Boeotian Athena.

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  • Public indignation was aroused by what were known as the "Bulgarian atrocities," and Gladstone flung himself into the agitation against Turkey with characteristic zeal.

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  • Antiquaries, however, assert that it probably marks the spot where criminals were in olden times flung into the river.

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  • It was felt that the wholehearted manner in which India, her princes and peoples, had flung themselves into the Imperial quarrel with Germany demanded a reconsideration of the relations between her and England.

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  • He is a form of the Lemnian Hephaestus, who alighted on the island when flung out of Olympus by Zeus.

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  • Picton at once stopped the victorious French advance to the east of the road, but the remaining division (Jerome) of Reille's corps now reached the front and Ney flung it into the Bossu wood to clear that place and keep his left flank free.

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  • Remains of the piles of the mole still exist, and are popularly known as Caligula's Bridge, from the mistaken idea that they belong to the temporary structure which that emperor flung across the bay from the mole at Puteoli to the shore at Baiae.

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  • But when the Hats became the armourbearers of France in the north, a protector strong enough to counteract French influence became the cardinal exigency of their opponents, the younger Caps, who now flung themselves into the arms of Russia, overlooking the fact that even a pacific union with Russia was more to be feared than a martial alliance with France.

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  • Cyrtt flung himself upon him, beat him at Pteria in Cappadocia and pursued him to Lydia.

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  • From his earliest days he had flung himself upon that study with an unprecedented ardour of delight and curiosity.

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  • His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he flung it away.

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  • He pushed his way into the small apartment and flung the unusual Miami rain from his clothes.

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  • Suddenly, she was flung to the wet floor.

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  • His body shook, and he flung his head back to the sky with a hoarse shout.

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  • Curious, she paused with the water bottle halfway to her mouth then set it down and flung the towel over her shoulder.

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  • She flung herself in, slammed the door, and locked them.

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  • She flung herself through it, not caring what waited for her on the other side.

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  • He stripped off his shirt and flung it then tossed all his weapons in a pile at his feet before seating himself once more.

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  • Gabriel stood for a long moment, numb, and then flung a knife into the forest with a roar.

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  • She flung herself onto the bed again, restless and scared.

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  • Without a thought as to who might be watching, he ducked into an alley and flung himself into the air.

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  • He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping down on her with outstretched hands shouted, "Get out!" in such a terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror.

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  • She flung her arms around him, the sweet smell of innocence and softness of her body making him melt.

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  • She flung herself into his arms, gratified when he squeezed her hard.

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  • Yully wiped her tears and flung her arms around his neck, fluttering hundreds of kisses across his face.

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  • He flung himself back into bed.

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  • He flung out an arm.

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  • She flung the door open and slammed it closed, about to run for her room, when she stopped cold.

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  • Gabriel sat opposite the door while Ully flung himself into a cushy chair.

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  • He flung her on the bed, and she launched up, meeting a wall of pure male.

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  • She took a step back, but he only snatched the scarf and flung it, too, out the window.

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  • She flung herself onto the bed, tears in her eyes.

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  • He seized his pistol and, instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his might toward the bushes.

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  • After dinner, she rushed head long after Anna Mikhaylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room.

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  • Hurrah!... he cried, and emptying his glass flung it on the floor.

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  • He picked it up, and in frustration, flung it as far as he could.

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  • A hand took her brandy and flung it and the glass over the wall.

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  • At first she heard only Metivier's voice, then her father's, then both voices began speaking at the same time, the door was flung open, and on the threshold appeared the handsome figure of the terrified Metivier with his shock of black hair, and the prince in his dressing gown and fez, his face distorted with fury and the pupils of his eyes rolled downwards.

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  • Marya Dmitrievna, with her spectacles hanging down on her nose and her head flung back, stood in the hall doorway looking with a stern, grim face at the new arrivals.

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  • One Uhlan stopped, another who was on foot flung himself to the ground to avoid being knocked over, and a riderless horse fell in among the hussars.

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  • That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side.

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  • From one open shop came the sound of blows and vituperation, and just as the officer came up to it a man in a gray coat with a shaven head was flung out violently.

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  • He drained her life until she was near blackness before he flung his head back with a contented sigh.

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  • He flung her to the ground near the far wall.

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  • He flung himself down in the chair again and propped up his forehead with his hands.

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  • His eyes lit up, and Bianca flung herself into his arms, thrilled to feel her brother's lanky body again.

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  • Deidre flung herself into his arms, pulling his face down to spread kisses across his features.

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  • She flung herself onto her back and stared at the ceiling.

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  • Shivering, she stripped out of the Hell garb and flung it aside to put on some of the clothing she'd chosen.

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  • She dropped her shirt, startled when Katie flung her arms around her in another tight hug.

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  • Deidre was flung aside.

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