5002 examples of fling in sentences
It has been remarked that the life of Christ may be said to fling its shadow over the whole vegetable world.
This is the pomp and paraphernalia of parting, with which I take my leave of a passion which has reigned so royally (so long) within me; thus, with its trappings of laureateship, I fling it off, pleased and satisfied with myself that the weakness troubles me no longer.
Burnet's good old prattle I can bring present to my mind; I can make the Revolution present to me: the French Revolution, by a converse perversity in my nature, I fling as far from me.
MATTHEW GREEN FROM THE SPLEEN To cure the mind's wrong bias, spleen Some recommend the bowling-green; Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Ye jauds, fling by your wheel.
Get out of the trench!" Like a dog Nash thrashed and crawled, scraping his hands in the dirt, to jump up and fling a rock that Kurt ducked by a narrow margin.
How they had faced a bombardment of heavy gunsa whistling, shrieking, thundering roar, pierced by the higher explosion of a bursting shellsmoke and sulphur and gasthe crumbling of walls and downward fling of shrapnel.
" This, she supposed, was a fling at her, and she stiffened under it.
My intention was, ye know, to fling the bloomin' cigar!" Heywood, laughing, rescued the volume on a long bamboo.
City of wonders, on whose sparkling breast, Fair, slight, and tall, a thousand palaces Fling their gay shadows over golden seas!
A word from you, Sira hint in your Journalwould be sufficient to fling open the doors of the Beautiful Temple again, as we can remember them when we were boys.
This gentleman, so surprisingly met upon Snow Hill, from some peculiarities in gait or gesture, was a constant butt for mirth to the small paragraph-mongers of the day; and our friend thought that he might have his fling at him with the rest.
'They are an answer,' he writes, 'to a gross brutality of Dr. Johnson, to which a properer answer would have been to fling a glass of wine in his face.
This she would say, however, that during her residence in Little Arcady she would fling aside the prejudice of a lifetime and worship each Sabbath at the minister's Methodist church.
Indeed there is no charge that the 'pariah' cannot fling in our faces and which we do not fling in the faces of Englishmen.
Indeed there is no charge that the 'pariah' cannot fling in our faces and which we do not fling in the faces of Englishmen.
With a single backward fling of the noose and forward toss he dropped the loop over the head of Carolyn June.
Old Heck, white-faced, but his lips drawn in a smile of satisfaction, stood up in the Clagstone "Six" and watched the Ramblin' Kidhis eyes set and staring, his body twitching convulsively, check the filly, swing her around, ride back to the judges' stand, weakly fling up a hand in salute and then, barely able to sit in the saddle, rein the Gold Dust maverick off the track and ride toward the box stall.
" General Baraguay d'Hilliers answered, and I heard the answer,"If M. Bonaparte should close the door of the Assembly against us, France will fling it wide open again.
I sometimes indulged in a little chaff at his expense; indeed, I generally had a little "fling" at him when he was in the box.
Whereas six French troopers fling their messes into the same pot, and extract a delicious soup, ten times more nutritious than the simple Rôti could ever be.
Piers, in the foremost of the crowd, threw a handful straight into her lap as the car started, but only he and Dick Guyes saw her gather it up with sudden energy and fling it back in his face.
Him I will be-lish-lash, and have a fling at his podix.
The silly flie, that no redresse did see, Spide where the Eagle built his towring nest, And, kindling fire within the hollow tree, Burnt up his yong ones, and himselfe distrest; Ne suffred him in anie place to rest, But drove in Ioves owne lap his egs to lay; Where gathering also filth him to infest, Forst with the filth his egs to fling away: For which, when as the foule was wroth, said Iove, "Lo!
"If I could have one more fling at them."