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tossing

noun as in agitation

noun as in outing

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Story meetings with my peers are usually a matter of tossing out many ideas until the right one hits.

And what did Cyrus tell her hair-tossing protégée, besides “Return the wrecking ball NOW, lady”?

Yezidis play a sort of basketball game here, balling cloth up and tossing it onto the top of the mound.

We would perhaps be tossing out any pretense of traditional baseball in exchange for popular thrill-a-minute spectacle.

In the U.S., dwarf tossing has been condemned as a cruel excuse for a sport.

Smokers, tossing pipes and puffing smoke over the dinner-table, forgot all cleanliness and modesty.

On a Sunday, a lady called to her little boy, who was tossing marbles on the side walk, to come in the house.

Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.

At his side was the girl, a slender body in drab, tossing her hat gayly about at the end of its long string.

"Oh no, indeed," replied Mrs. Sin, tossing her head in a manner oddly reminiscent of a once famous Spanish dancer.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tossing, such as: disturbance, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, and commotion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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