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• throw a shoe;   throw a javelin;   the horse threw its rider
• When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
• There the snake throws her enamelled skin.
• throw the switch
• This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
• If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception.
• The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
• Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
• The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
• "Jann, why does he hate me so much?" That question threw me. I was expecting a lunatic yelling profanities.
• Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
• Stoke threw men forward in numbers as they attempted to find a way back into the game, and Mark Schwarzer was forced into a low save from Huth's close-range effort.
• The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
• The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.
• The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over.
• And now, Clevelanders hoping to bring the Rock Roll Hall of Fame to their city are throwing a bash to commemorate the 34th birthday of disc Jockey Alan Freed's "Moondog Coronation Ball".
• Should you be interested, for whatever reason, it will tell you how to throw a party for your 40-year-old husband or your 100-year-old great-grandmother. It also describes games that can be played at various kinds of parties[...]
• The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.
• Declarer threw his queen of spades on the high diamond. He then won the last three tricks with his ace, queen and nine of hearts behind East's jack third.
• In other European cities the president visited this week, people waited for his motorcade to pass to throw insults at him, requiring the police to intervene with batons, water cannons and tear gas.
• At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.
• “Then, when I throw my voice, when I speak as someone who's quite different from me, it starts to feel very authentic.”
• Bill runs into the kitchen and tells Dad that Erik is throwing a tantrum. He tells Bill to go back and watch his program and to ignore his brother. Fifteen minutes later, Erik is still screaming[...]
• In 1975, pregnant with the second of her three children, she threw a hissy fit to get on a trip to Boston for elected officials.
• Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
• O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.
• Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
• Downe himselfe he layd / Vpon the grassie ground, to sleepe a throw; / The cold earth was his couch, the hard steele his pillow.
• ~ a party