fling

The man she was seeing, Kjetil, had already made it clear he was looking for love rather than a fling.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

In this zone, the combined gravitational effects of the two stars either fling planets out of the system or pull them inward until they are destroyed.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026

His fling with Pearl in the present might be a cross-cultural meet-cute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

"They will get out, but not like people think. It's not as if they're going to fling the doors open like a bull run."

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

But I fumble and twist at the lock anyway, then fling open the door.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The snare's "exceptionally high power" flings the ant into a bigger web at "15 times the most extreme g-forces experienced by jet pilots", said lead researcher Prof Ajay Narendra.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

And when the stormy morning after arrives, each peal of thunder sends Julia into a paroxysm of nerves that flings her around like a handkerchief caught in a stiff breeze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Bertrand often flings bowling balls—flaming ones on New Year’s Eve—but today we’re launching spherical garden stones.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

The kind of person who lies to strangers out of boredom and shrugs her way through flings with unattractive men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

Finally, with the last bit of energy Camille possesses, she lifts her arm and flings her cell phone straight across the kitchen.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

He spent days driving his truck around towns, collecting dead cattle flung into people's homes and lining the roads.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Princeton’s players flung their sticks and gloves into the air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

"I stepped forward and I flung my arm back - that was my instant reaction," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

When I visited Havana again this spring to report on the mounting crisis, the malecón was deserted, strewn with brown seaweed that had been flung from the ocean by crashing waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Clare flung the broken monocle away and blew on the pulsing ember, praying to the all-knowing Universe it wouldn’t go out.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

What makes the act of flinging himself upside down so audacious is that it’s entirely gratuitous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Tunisia midfielder Hannibal Mejbri was luckly to escape a yellow card for dissent after reacting angrily when a Nigerian took a foul throw, flinging the ball into the ground.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

It took Dent only 10 seconds to make his presence felt, driving toward the basket before flinging a pass to Clark for a three-pointer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

On paper, Greene has a lot going for her a Trump’s heir apparent, and she likely will get checkbooks flinging open.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025

He felt, briefly, like a boy straining over the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, cresting a high rise, flinging himself into the downhill.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez