Use fling in a sentence
Sentences starting with fling
- Fling open the window-blinds of the chamber that looks out on the waters and towards the western sun! [6]
Sentences ending with fling
- And I ought to add that I always intended going into the law after I'd had a fling. [9]
- Now not a pebble must be thrown in vain, for if our tower becomes the central point of the struggle the defenders will need stones to fling. [10]
- At last Hermas for the second time hit the palm-tree, while Paulus had failed to reach even the mound with his last fling. [10]
More example sentences with the word fling in them
- A drunken soldier, who soon reeled back into the tavern which he had but just left, distinguished himself as ringleader, and was the first to pick up a heavy stone to fling at the huge brass-plated temple gates. [10]
- At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
- Long before it was decided Dada had been impatiently fingering her wreaths, and could hardly wait any longer to fling them into Marcus' chariot. [10]
- He knew it was better to let a man have his fling and come a cropper over his own work than to have him unoccupied, excited, and troublesome, especially when he was an Englishman and knew about what he was talking. [11]
- It was the unconscious tribute, too,--slight as was its exhibition,--of the man whose life has been spent in the conquest of material things to the man who has the audacity, insensate though it seem, to fling these to the winds in his search after ideals. [9]
- Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty. [5]
- At last, they tore him from me, and I followed sobbing after them, and saw them fling him into the sea --then I covered my face with my hands. [5]
- She was sworn to me, bound to me, wanted a year in which to have her fling before she settled down, and she threw me over--like that. [11]
- Who was he to fling back an annual pass in the face of the president of the Northeastern Railroads? [9]
- I should like to fling all those pebbles into the fire, the onyx and shells and jasper and what not, and smash all those wretched tools with these fists, which were certainly made for other work than this. [10]
- When the proper time came, he would fling down the gauntlet--before Rome itself, and then let Horatius and his friends beware. [9]
- I will fling them into an abyss, and I will laugh when I see them writhing in the sand at my feet! [10]
- He hastily grasped the phial to fling it from him, but the surging passion in his veins had deprived him of his self-control. [10]
- It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheon on door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse. [10]
- I even went so far as to indulge in, a fling at the State House, which, as we all know, is in truth a very imposing structure, covering less ground than St. Peter's, but of similar general effect. [6]
- To speak a single word in behalf of Alexander or your father would be to fling myself into the fire without putting it out. [10]
- I wonder whether she told him she didn't fling the bouquet! [6]
- The first thing she did was to fling the flower into her fireplace and rake the ashes over it. [6]
- These, truly, are questions which I would fling in your face were things as they used to be. [10]
- Orion turned as pale as death and hastily took the shoes from his mother's hand; he would have liked to fling them up and away through the open roof. [10]
- She would fling open a book, and decide in a swift glance whether it had any message for her. [6]
- Then, all at once, he faced ahead again and, bending lower in the saddle, began to fling his right arm up and down. [13]
- I bet heavily on Flamingo, intending it for my last fling, and, to save what I had left, to get back what I had lost. [11]
- It suits her now to fling a golden apple into the path of a person whom she dislikes and believes incautious, that she may pick it up and thus afford her an opportunity to bring a charge of theft. [10]
- He says, every now and then in his sermons, that the first thing he does when he gets to heaven, will be to fling his arms around Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and kiss them and weep on them. [5]
- She had already noted the deep precipice to the edge of which she now fled, fully resolved to fling herself over into the depths below, rather than to surrender herself prisoner. [10]
- The chance had not been given him to shift his crews or to fling open his starboard gun-ports. [9]
- Still--my house is nearer to the brink of the stream than the dwelling of most others, and if I fling in a loaf, perhaps the current will bear it to the majestic sea. [10]
- Thou, O Thou Most High, art my witness that I earnestly seek it, but so soon as the thorns tear my flesh the drops of blood turn to roses, and if I put them aside, others come and still fling garlands in my way. [10]
- Lady Halwood was more impertinent than usual the other day at the Sinclairs' show, and had a little fling at Mrs. Lambert. [11]
- But in the moonlight, her fourteen centuries of greatness fling their glories about her, and once more is she the princeliest among the nations of the earth. [5]
- Her spirits had moments of great dullness, when she was ready to fling herself into the river--or the arms of the schoolmaster or the farrier. [11]
- In such rare moments as this her heart melted towards Lise, and she would fling a protecting arm about her. [9]
- Instead of watering meadows, the mad waves fling stones on their banks. [10]
- Then they fling me beside the fire, and they cover up the hole with the gold and the bodies. [11]
- He too was making love to her; like Ditmar, he wanted her to use and fling away when he should grow weary. [9]
- There was a little cavalcade mounted on the tiny French ponies, and sometimes I rode with these; but oftenest Cowan or Tom would fling me; drum and all, on his shoulder. [9]
- His words were like that, suggestive of a torrent into which she longed to fling herself, yet refrained, without knowing why. [9]
- They fling away life and happiness as if they were apple-peelings to snatch at something which they believe to constitute salvation. [10]
- He had never laid eyes upon her, and as he walked hither from his house he seemed to foresee a helpless little woman who, once he had called, would fling her Boston pride to the winds and dump her woes upon him. [9]
- At this point, just as he was raising his hand to fling another rich largess, he caught sight of a pale, astounded face, which was strained forward out of the second rank of the crowd, its intense eyes riveted upon him. [5]
- Now and again it has a wreck or a dead body to toss and fling about. [4]
- When the baron is defeated, the serfs come out of their holes in the castle rock and fling their curses across the moat. [9]
- It became quite intelligible that many Alexandrians should fear to fling a stone lest it might hit one of the good daemons of which the air was full--a spirit of light perhaps, or a protecting spirit. [10]
- If I stay in pedt it's zo I can fling money away on somethings else. [8]
- And these words I have ever kept in mind, and many times have they given me pause, when the hot blood of the Schoppers has bid me stoop and pick up a stone to fling at my neighbor. [10]
- Should he fling himself upon his pursuers and fell them to the earth? [10]
- She gave her head an impatient fling, and, as I feared, appealed to John Paul. [9]
- We've let you have your fling, which is more than I ever saw granted to a Mormon woman. [13]
- Every scribbler, almost, has had his little fling at it, at one time or another; I had mine fifteen years ago. [5]
- This high official had overheard the citizens' heedless words, and turning to the man who stood beside him, while with a light fling he threw the end of his toga into fresh folds, he said: "An extraordinary people! [10]
- How many times had he laughed as he sat in church and heard the cure have his gentle fling at smuggling! [11]
- If she had had any lingering notion of exposing Alfred Temple, Tom's offensive fling had driven it entirely away. [5]
- Exhilarated, I sprang from Terence's arms to the sodden, bared space, and methinks I yet hear my shrill, piping note, and see my legs kicking in the fling of it. [9]
- Well, comrades and friends of my youth, we've had our fling and lived and reveled. [2]
- She felt sorry for him because he had loved her enough to fling to the winds his chances of wealth for her sake--a sufficient measure of the feelings of one of his nationality and caste. [9]
- I, too, longed for a Cause into which I might fling myself, in which I might lose myself... [9]
- Too often they fling their hearts away on unworthy objects. [6]
- On Thee we fling our burdening woe, O Love Divine, forever dear, Content to suffer, while we know, Living and dying, Thou art near! [6]
- Nor did Puss fling open the blinds and wave at her. [9]
- This horseshoe-crab I fling at your feet is of older lineage than your Adam,--perhaps, indeed, you count your Adam as one of his descendants. [6]
- Into thy fiercest flames I fling My heart, my life below. [10]
- It was eminently fitting that the Honourable Humphrey Crewe of Leith, who had dared to fling down the gauntlet in the face of an arrogant power, should be the leader of the plain people, to recover the rights which had been wrested from them. [9]
- I've seen them drunk with joy and dance and fling themselves around. [13]
- In this perspective Ditmar appeared so ruthless, his purpose to use her and fling her away so palpable, that she despised herself for having hesitated. [9]
- Now that the detectives were in adversity, the newspapers turned upon them, and began to fling the most stinging sarcasms at them. [5]
- She, Gundel, had caught her arm more than once when she was going to fling Hungarian ducats, instead of coppers, to good-for-nothing beggars. [10]
- Old Broadbrim they called his grandfather after he turned Quaker, and he didn't do that till he had had his fling, so my father used to say. [11]
- An arrow, shot by Orpheus, had just glanced over the breastplate and into the throat of a centurion who had already set foot on the lowest step, when Karnis suddenly dropped the spear he was preparing to fling and fell without a cry. [10]
- She had been busy and industrious out of pride and fear, but never from love; she had selfishly tried to fling from her the sacred gift of life without ever thinking what would become of those whom it was her duty to care for. [10]
- What a great book one could make, with such aids, and how many would fling it down, and take up anything in preference, provided only that it were short enough; even this slight record, for want of something shorter! [6]
- Why must every body praise Joseph's great-hearted generosity to his cruel brethren, without stint of fervent language, and fling only a reluctant bone of praise to Esau for his still sublimer generosity to the brother who had wronged him? [5]
- I never heard anything about any occupation; they had their swing and their fling, and their flirtations; they appeared to be skimming off of those impressionable, joyous years the cream of life. [4]
- You never had an open hand nor soft heart; and because you've made money, not out o' smugglin' alone, but out o' poor devils of smugglers that didn't know rightly to be rogues, you think to fling your dirt where you choose. [11]
- Now and anon an impatient fling of his hoof would make the grooms start away from him. [9]
- Bitches are not always prudent in their loves, but are apt to fling themselves away on curs of low degree. [1]
- It had required all his presence of mind to hurry to his room, fling on his night garments, and rush back to the scene of disaster. [10]
- That will not all be white paper either, and if she throws a shoe at me I will fling the last at her. [10]
- Usually, when we alighted from our vehicle, the expression of mine host would sour, and his sir would shift to a master; while his servants would go trooping in again, with many a coarse fling that they would get no vails from such as we. [9]
- Like his father, Alexander was intent on the bloody struggle--gazing upward with breathless interest as the combatants tried to fling each other into the yawning depth below them. [10]
- The deeper the abyss into which they fling me the better. [10]
- Now and again a silent brave passed, paused a moment to survey them gravely, grunted an answer to something they would fling at him, and went on. [9]
- He gave him a sharp fling backwards and stood looking at him. [6]
- I will fling a hint at it from the stump on the polling day. [5]
- Nay, I were a fool to fling me into hell for _his_ accommodation. [5]
- That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so. [5]
- When I fling a Bay-State shawl over my shoulders, I am only taking a lesson from the climate that the Indian had learned before me. [6]
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