Use flung in a sentence
Sentences starting with flung
- Flung across the table beside her was a long coat of grey fur. [9]
- Flung down the precipice and forced into this contracted space, it fumes and tosses and rages with vindictive fury, driving on in a passion that has almost a human quality in it. [4]
Sentences ending with flung
- She glanced around the familiar, sordid room, at the magazine pages against the faded wall-paper, at the littered bureau and the littered bed, over which Lise's clothes were flung. [9]
- The radiator was concealed by a Jap screen, and over the top of this some Arab scarfs were flung. [8]
Short sentences using flung
- She flung open the windows. [9]
- Presently he flung it down. [9]
Sentences containing flung two or more times
- So, without heeding Melissa's remonstrance, he flung his sky-blue mantle about him in fresh folds, and declaimed with comical emphasis: "Down to earth did the god cast his son: but with mightier hand Through it, to Hades, Caesar flung his brother the dwarf. [10]
- He flung off a buckskin coat that was all hung with fringes, and says, 'You lay thar tell the chawin-up's done;' and flung his hat down, which was all over ribbons, and says, 'You lay thar tell his sufferin's is over. [5]
More example sentences with the word flung in them
- Probably it was you, too, who had him flung into the water, after you had vented your wrath on him? [10]
- You--you don't know, you can't know what it is to be driven and used and flung away! [9]
- They have gone with the protectors of our home, the pride and ornament of this house--of the street, of the city--the Hermes and Pallas Athene that you--you flung into the lime-kiln. [10]
- He again turned with tender solicitude to the sufferer, but instantly started to his feet, for the gates were flung wide open and the light of torches and lanterns streamed into the court. [10]
- He was breathing with great difficulty; his face was almost convulsed with the effort, but she recognized him in a moment; it was Murray Bradshaw,--Captain Bradshaw, as she knew by the bars on his coat flung upon the bed where he had just been laid. [6]
- They flung themselves with fury on the foes that surrounded him, dealing death as they advanced, and putting the Cheta to flight, and soon Rameses saw himself safe, and protected by his followers. [10]
- He stepped along with a chipper air, and flung himself into a doll's chair in a very free-and-easy way, without waiting to be asked. [5]
- And when the windows on the orchard side showed a gray square of light, he flung down the parchment he was reading on the table. [9]
- Once in a while a sentence like a flaming brand was flung out. [9]
- The grip, with which I flung him, I learned--how long ago?--from the chief-gymnast at Delphi. [10]
- That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
- Then the blinds were flung aside, and a young lady in a dress of white trimmed with crimson stood in the window, smiling. [9]
- The swarthy bearers were far too slow for his longing, and more than once he flung to them as much money as they were wont to earn in a week, to urge them to a brisker pace. [10]
- Pains came and went, and at times I felt like a fagot flung into the fire,--I, who had never known a sick day. [9]
- Before General Wilkinson went to New Orleans the Spaniards seized our flat boats and cargoes and flung our traders into prison, ay, and sent them to the mines of Brazil. [9]
- So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
- It would be well if they could be relieved from duty and flung out in the literary back yard to rot and disappear along with the discarded and forgotten "steeds" and "halidomes" and similar stage-properties once so dear to our grandfathers. [5]
- This was the way her loving spirit was flung back upon her! [4]
- Suddenly the door was unlocked on the inside, and flung violently open. [12]
- Philippus, quite undaunted, was trying to adjust the bandage over his wound, when Rustem suddenly flung his arms round his body and tried with all his might, and with foaming lips, to drag him down. [10]
- And Nell herself was there, and he--both laughing heartily as they had often done--and when he had got as far as this, Kit could go no farther, but flung himself upon his poor bedstead and wept. [12]
- Joan's loyal soul was outraged, and she turned upon the preacher and flung out a few words with a spirit which the crowd recognized as being in accordance with the Joan of Arc traditions: "By my faith, sir! [5]
- Presently the door was flung open, And they saw Mr. Whipple standing in the threshold, stern and dishevelled. [9]
- The front door was flung open now, and the crowd poured into the room, boisterous, reckless, though some were only sullen, watchful and angry. [11]
- The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
- The man who was attacked flung him on the pavement in the struggle. [10]
- The fortune of war flung me under the Spanish flag, and 'whose bread I eat, his song I sing,' says the soldier. [10]
- His face was very stern, but his eyes, which had flung fire at Mr. Dodd, looked at her with a vast compassion. [9]
- And Mr. Hilary Vane was often in consultation with him, as he was on the present occasion when Victoria flung open the door. [9]
- I did not value my life, as you know well, for it has been flung into the midst of dangers for Egypt's sake, how often! [11]
- Down we swooped upon them, glooming all the air with a quivering pall of dead leaves flung up by the whirlwind of our flight. [5]
- I flung myself upon his poor insulted form and cried my grief out upon his breast while my father and all my family scoffed at me and heaped threats and shameful epithets upon him. [5]
- New horror seized upon him; with arms flung upward to bid the specters avaunt he muttered the exorcism against the wiles of evil spirits. [10]
- Presently he came upon a mounted messenger of the enemy; he struck him down from his horse, flung himself into the saddle, and rushed on towards the camp; as if he were riding to his wedding. [10]
- Hands were flung up that were past counting, and men who were barely rested from the hardships of the Wilderness Trail shouted their readiness to go. [9]
- And he flung up his hand in return. [9]
- They picked her up and flung her around like nothing and landed her gently on the solid, smooth bottom of sand--so gently, indeed, that we barely felt her touch it, barely felt her quiver when she came to a standstill. [5]
- Some, indeed, stirred uneasily as the rector paused, lowering their eyes before the intensity of his glance, vaguely realizing that the man had flung the whole passion of his being into the appeal. [9]
- A blade gleamed under the sickly light of the fish-oil lamp overhead, but a man crashed through from behind and caught the ruffian's sword-arm and flung him back in the kennel. [9]
- Koshal stabbed him under the arms and in the throat, and we flung the body into a running stream. [5]
- Gaining the window, trembling, half-expectant, she flung open a blind. [9]
- Remembered that she tore out the frontispiece of one of them, and kept it, and flung the book out of the window. [6]
- You gave her to the Confederacy for a war debt, and the Confederacy flung her back. [9]
- He took occasion to insult me (I cannot with propriety repeat his speech), and he flung a bottle after me as I passed out the door. [9]
- She was about to hold out her hand to him to say good-bye, when there was a noise without, a knocking at the door, then it was flung open, and Tardif, intoxicated, entered followed by two constables, with Fournel's servant vainly protesting. [11]
- Mr. Worthington sprang to his feet, and flung out a hand toward Jethro. [9]
- His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he flung it away. [2]
- Bouquets were flung to her; and a wreath, which one of the young ladies had expected for herself in another part, was tossed upon the stage, and laid at her feet. [6]
- I hurried back to give Farrar a hand with the ropes, and it was O'Meara who caught the one I flung ashore and wound it around a pile. [9]
- Mr. Flint walked to a window at the far end of the room and flung apart the tightly closed curtains before it. [9]
- Presently they came to a gothic-looking stone building, with a mediaeval bridge thrown across the stream in front of it, and massive gates flung open. [9]
- The unfortunate woman, thus thrown off her guard, flung herself back on her couch and, panting for breath, with tears streaming from her eyes, sobbed aloud, declaring that in the presence of such unendurable insult, such contemptible baseness, she fairly loathed herself. [10]
- Before he got through with it he was claiming that the enemy had flung a building at him. [5]
- Heat waves pulsed through her, she grew intolerably warm, perspiration started from her pores, and she flung off the blankets. [9]
- It was as though a search-light were flung ahead of him and he saw, dimly, a new order--a new order in government and religion. [9]
- We say to those who would take back their several contributions to that undivided unity which we call the Nation; the bronze is cast; the statue is on its pedestal; you cannot reclaim the brass you flung into the crucible! [6]
- With loud outcries they flung down their shields and fled. [10]
- In one of these villages we passed a church, its doors flung open; the congregation was singing a familiar hymn. [9]
- In the moment there was a wild burst of joyous laughter, a pair of round young arms were flung about Conrad's neck and a sweet voice cried: "There, Conrad mine, thy kind words kill me--the farce shall go no further! [5]
- Joan was taken there near the end of December, 1430, and flung into a dungeon. [5]
- Then all flung themselves upon their knees about him and sent up a chorus of ironical wailings, and mocking supplications, whilst they swabbed their eyes with their soiled and ragged sleeves and aprons-- "Be gracious to us, O sweet King! [5]
- Others had flung themselves down in an open space surrounded by shrubbery in the Paneum garden, and were drinking the choice wine which Dion's cellarer, by his orders, had brought and was pouring out for the crowd. [10]
- In sign of their poverty they are sent to their grave naked, in sign of their equality the bones of the rich, the poor, the illustrious and the obscure are flung into the common well together. [5]
- The body-guards flung their halberds on the pavement, and there were plenty of tears and lamentations. [10]
- I have liked the young man, admired his talents, been anxious when he trifled with his life as if it were a paltry leaf, which is flung into the river. [10]
- I fled from the world to this mountain, and the world has pursued me and has flung its snares round my feet. [10]
- Suddenly, full in the window, he stopped and flung away the paper. [9]
- She rushed to the window in mortal fear, and looked down into the palace-yard; at that same instant the door of the great banqueting-hall was flung open, and a flying crowd streamed out in distracted confusion--then another, and a third--all troops in King Philometor's uniform. [10]
- He flung open the window and sprang through. [6]
- All at once the two were circling their swords in the air, and then Nick had flung open the shutter and leaped through the window, and was running and shouting towards the astonished gentlemen, all of whom wheeled to face him. [9]
- I flung away the torch, leaving the head of the column in darkness, broke from Mr. [9]
- Then she raised the tiny blood-stained weapon for a second stroke; but ere she could give her enemy another thrust, Ephraim flung himself between her and her victim and wrenched the dagger from her grasp. [10]
- Ah, how long the time seemed ere she at last saw the horseman, ere he swung himself to the ground, and his companion flung the reins of the horse to a man who followed him. [10]
- Through interminable days, the sun beat down upon the city; and at night the tortured bricks flung back angrily the heat with which he had filled them. [9]
- Unheeding Joshua, or the stir in the camp, she again flung herself down with uplifted arms under the sycamore, gazing upward with dilated, tearful eyes, as if expecting a new revelation. [10]
- Cynthia fled up the stairs, miraculously arriving unnoticed at her own room, and locked the door and flung herself on the bed. [9]
- He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping down on her with outstretched hands shouted, "Get out! [2]
- In due time the shores of Italy were sighted, and as we stood gazing from the decks, early in the bright summer morning, the stately city of Genoa rose up out of the sea and flung back the sunlight from her hundred palaces. [5]
- Virginia flung open the sash and listened for the dreaded sound of drums. [9]
- The invitation to the Rassinghams flung wide the doors which had formerly been closed against her, and she might be sure of not being deemed the least important among the ladies of her party to whose hearts the cause of King and Church was dear. [10]
- He boasted, in the presence of those estimable old gentlemen, the Brothers Ebner, that he had flung at my feet the ring which bound you to his son. [10]
- He always dominated the places easiest of assault, and flung down exceedingly troublesome big stones which smashed men and ladders both --then he would near burst himself with laughing over what he had done. [5]
- The verdure of the Park was freshened to an incredible brilliancy by the dew, a thin white veil of mist was spread over the mirror of the waters, the trees flung long shadows across the turf. [9]
- At this confession the old man broke out violently, he flung his file, and the iron bolt at which he was working, on to his work-table, exclaiming: "And this is the way you executed your commission. [10]
- Next me, at the long table where we were all thrown in together,--all who could not pay for private meals, --sat a poor fellow who had flung away a patrimony of three thousand a year. [9]
- And coming into the long room I flung aside my greatcoat and commanded a flask of Mr. Stephen Bordley's old sherry, some of which Mr. Claude had obtained at that bachelor's demise. [9]
- She sprang from the litter and alighted on the ground with both feet at once, clung firmly to the door, and haughtily flung back her head, crowned with a wealth of dark locks. [10]
- Then she threw the light on the old chair, and, shuddering, caught up a shawl and flung it over the spiral-wound arms and legs, and the flattened reptiles on which it stood. [6]
- By no means the least, however, of the treasures flung into his lap was the tie which now bound him to the Philip Goodriches, which otherwise would never have been possible. [9]
- He had flung the knife at the dog with a wish in his heart that it was Cumner's Son instead. [11]
- As soon as the illustrious Naashon had pressed one of the oldest of these hapless men like a brother to his heart, the other liberated bondsmen had flung themselves into the shepherds' arms and thus, still shouting: "They are coming! [10]
- Remark flung across the House to Schonerer: 'Die Grossmutter auf dem Misthaufen erzeugt worden! [5]
- In three strides the great man had his hand on the office door and had flung it open, disclosing the culprit cowering over the day-book on the floor. [9]
- She flung open the gate, and stood before him. [9]
- The shrubs in the garden where she had flung herself into his arms, her blissful walk in the moonlight, and all the crowd assembled for the festival, and finally how, possessed by the god, they had together joined the procession, and danced through the streets. [10]
- She had flung the first tangible token of his love into the insatiable jaws of a worthless profligate, like a copper coin thrown as alms to a beggar. [10]
- I flung out the first hint--but for that it would all have gone to the shoemaker. [5]
- If it had, the face of this man who was once so much to her, and whom she had flung into outer darkness, was sufficient to cast a cloud over it. [11]
- The architect opened the door only a short distance; he was expected, for Barine soon heard him whisper, and suddenly the door was flung wide. [10]
- All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams' grave and felled Potter to the earth with it--and in the same instant the half-breed saw his chance and drove the knife to the hilt in the young man's breast. [5]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word flung in a sentence? How do you use flung in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word flung? It contains example sentences with the word flung, a sentence example for flung, and flung in sample sentence.