THROW in a Sentence

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What Microsoft has done is throw away the traditional basis of a spreadsheet and brought the concept into the computer age.

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 Meanings and Examples of THROW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
throw
 v.  send something through the air with force, especially by a sudden movement of the arm
 v.  get rid of, cause to move or act quickly or carelessly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You think it's riding a pretty horse and having the girls throw flowers at you and coming home a hero.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  If you do I will throw it in the gutter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  But Sherman flanked them again, crossing the stream above them, and the weary gray files were forced to hurry across the yellow water and throw themselves again between the invaders and Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  There was nothing else she did have, nothing but this red land, this land she had been willing to throw away like a torn handkerchief only a few minutes before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  I think you're real rude to throw off on my poor hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Raging as she was at his attack on Ashley, she would have given anything to spit on him and throw his offer of money proudly into his mocking face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  But, she promised herself, never, never would she again try to prod him into words of love, never again would she try to make him throw away that foolish honor he valued more than love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  She remembered her promise given last winter in the orchard, that she would never again throw herself at his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  The whip cracked and the startled horse went off at a wild gallop that threatened to throw the buggy into the ditch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  "Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot," said Scarlett grudgingly, but she did not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  But now, at the actual crisis, this difference seemed to throw the weight of destitution on Bertha's side, since at least he had her to suffer for, and she had only herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
13  A soiled man and woman munch sandwiches and throw the crusts on the floor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  She longed to be able to throw into her voice the facile passion of a light woman.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
16  What Microsoft has done is throw away the traditional basis of a spreadsheet and brought the concept into the computer age.
17  These fires create convection funnels, and throw a lot of particles into the upper atmosphere.
18  Sort out things you want to keep and throw everything else away.
19  I'm unable to throw off this feeling of inertia.
20  They finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
21  The stronger wrestler won the first throw.
22  Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
23  He who lives in glass house should not throw stones.
24  Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
25  Don't throw stones at your neightbours,if your own windows are glass.
26  The catcher was dinged on the head by a wild throw.
27  I have a huge number of ties because I never throw them away.
28  They throw rubbish into rivers , too.
29  A dancer must throw herself heart and soul into every performance.
30  The dog turned tail when he saw the man pick up a stone to throw at him.