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

Jean’s brief fling during the summer of 1998 coincided with the public airing of Monica’s doomed romance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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

He maintained a strong and tender marriage, despite his fling with Kahlo, and tried to keep up with the times during breaks from work on his biography of Stalin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

He wanted to run and fling his arms about.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

The cowboy grips its reins and mane with one hand, his sole sure purchase on the almost upright animal, and flings out his free arm to balance himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

Olympic medalist Jordan Chiles sails through the air with ease as her professional dance partner Ezra Sosa flings her around — last week, on a harness.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

Aurora starts crying and flings herself on top of me.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

This has left men like Wang, who are in their late 30s and who live in smaller cities or far- flung, rural areas, with few options.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

With the grace of a bull in a china shop, Thiero flung himself toward the rim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

During the final round of the PGA Championship in 2025, he angrily flung his driver near a volunteer so hard that it damaged a sign and snapped the head off the club’s shaft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Keeping what few wits he still had left about him, Duane flipped the cork off the flask and flung the contents in the direction of the voice just as C.C. had instructed him to do.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

His offspring are made of lesser stuff than him, but our hero manages to earn redemption by flinging a stockcar around a tri-oval racetrack 180 times at 200 miles per hour.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

For as long as index funds have existed, they’ve been under attack from competitors flinging one flimsy pretext after another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Now flinging himself head-over-heels feels as simple as a single jump, Malinin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

"I want to demonstrate that I can make serious points by flinging a custard pie around the stage for a couple of hours," the Czech-born Stoppard said in a 1970s interview.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

I feel like a red firework on the Fourth of July, shrieking into the air and flinging itself in every direction possible.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman