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toss
noun as in throw
verb as in move back and forth
Example Sentences
On a single coin toss, the chances of getting heads or tails is one in two, but the chance of getting heads twice in a row is one in four.
Only a moment later, Mahomes zinged another 20-yard touchdown toss to Hill, giving him 261 yards on the day.
He passed for more than 400 yards for the fourth time in his career, and one of his five touchdown passes was an underhanded toss to Travis Kelce.
The center fielder booted a single, the cutoff man threw poorly toward home, the catcher whiffed a perfectly catchable toss and, just for unnecessary garnish, the losing pitcher forgot to back up home plate.
In the South Bay, a coin toss decided a 2000 race for a spot the Otay Water District board.
The moment came where newly graduated cops customarily toss their white gloves into the air in celebration.
Add olive oil to the pan and toss in the garlic and chili flake.
Toss the string beans and mesclun with enough dressing to moisten.
She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”
Toss in Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus and his Democratic counterpart, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, too.
Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.
When he assails a calf, the cow will rush upon him, and one toss from her horns is sufficient to kill him.
Sues saucy, self-congratulatory toss of the head 14 stung her so that she could have cried out.
“I am sure they are going to use my idea,” Belle Ringold said, with a toss of her bobbed curls.
A pure toss up whether he pulls round or not; luckily he has a frame of iron.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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