throw
Example Sentences
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Each has plays — like a slow-roller up the third baseline that requires a quick throw across the diamond — that no other position will encounter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2026
Jody might throw in a maxim long framed on her bathroom wall: “Quityerbellyachin.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
He'd always get these strange injuries that we'd always say, 'Only Jots could get these injuries', because he'd throw himself into things that no-one else would.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026
“He might need to throw the hawks a bone,” said Neil Dutta, head of economics at Renaissance Macro Research.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026
I believed Gran; I just always thought that she would be the one to throw the rope.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Vocabulary lists containing throw
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 3
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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