as in threw
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
flinging rocks into the pond just for the fun of it
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Recent Examples of flung
They were presumed dead, flung along with countless others into the mass graves dug across the country.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
The mind reels at the musical darts that the late Phil Ochs could have flung in the direction of the person who’s about to re-enter the White House.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
Lawmakers from the other side shoved them and the chairs back and squirted or flung water at them from plastic bottles.
—Taijing Wu and Ken Moritsugu, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Most checkpoints stood empty, the doors of their stations flung open.
—Justin Salhani, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
Comments Outlander has reached a point where the can of worms has not only been opened, but the contents have been flung everywhere.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
One of its rotor blades broke off during touchdown and was flung away to one side (far left).
—William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
All of the pressure reached a boiling point in October 2023, when a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and flung underneath a nearby Cruise vehicle.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
Social media was flooded with videos of people emerging dazed and dishevelled from Assad’s state prisons, in many ways the most potent symbol of his rule, which had been flung open by opposition forces.
—Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
The mind reels at the musical darts that the late Phil Ochs could have flung in the direction of the person who’s about to re-enter the White House.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
Lawmakers from the other side shoved them and the chairs back and squirted or flung water at them from plastic bottles.
—Taijing Wu and Ken Moritsugu, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Most checkpoints stood empty, the doors of their stations flung open.
—Justin Salhani, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
Comments Outlander has reached a point where the can of worms has not only been opened, but the contents have been flung everywhere.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
One of its rotor blades broke off during touchdown and was flung away to one side (far left).
—William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
All of the pressure reached a boiling point in October 2023, when a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and flung underneath a nearby Cruise vehicle.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
Social media was flooded with videos of people emerging dazed and dishevelled from Assad’s state prisons, in many ways the most potent symbol of his rule, which had been flung open by opposition forces.
—Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Flung.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flung. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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