fling
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Thousands flock to a small Spanish town to fling tomatoes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Beyond that title, the boldest thing about the film is that Araki doesn’t condemn Erika or Elliot for their fling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
She showed Liyana how to slap bread dough into flat rounds and fling them onto a hot black stone to cook.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
She claims to inhabit the soul of Albert Camus, and flings around aphorisms about art that fly over Cricket’s head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
The senior Trudeau had a couple of famous flings of his own with American singer Barbra Streisand and Canadian actress Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City fame.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
That feeling of being incomplete starts to fade, filled by other things — work, art, old friends, new flings.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
We’ll each make a flying craft/object/thing out of clay, and then we’ll have a contest to see whose flings the farthest across the room off of a big metal T square mounted to his desk.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
The successful launch of SpaceX’s IPO got the market excited that the window to go public was flung open.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Stray bits of seaweed were flung to the side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Dozens of Khan supporters gathered near the private hospital, while others flung handfuls of red flower petals at passing cars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 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
Storming past her into the bedroom, I pulled the cigar box out from underneath my mattress and flung the lid open.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Karl ducks into a shop and comes out with a bottle of water, flinging it under a bungee cord attached to his trolley, which he had made in Nicaragua early in the adventure.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
Now flinging himself head-over-heels feels as simple as a single jump, Malinin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
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
She couldn’t see Papa, but Mama was feverishly digging, flinging big bags around like she was a strongman.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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