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Sentences starting with threw

Threw an extra job in my way the other day. [4]

Short sentences using threw

He threw out that suggestion. [5]
Achmet threw dice once more. [11]
Indignation threw out his chest. [11]
Carnac--she threw back her head. [11]
Sally threw up her hands. [9]
I threw it down afterwards. [11]
I threw my chance away. [8]
I threw them all away. [5]
I threw Farrar a bait. [9]

Sentences containing threw two or more times

At that instant Laflamme threw his arms swiftly round the other, clapped a hand on his mouth, and, with a dexterous twist of leg, threw him backward, till it seemed as if the spine of the soldier must break. [11]
She saw that he stumbled as he walked, and that, every now and then, he lifted his head with an effort and threw it back, and threw his shoulders back also, as though to assert his physical manhood. [11]

More example sentences with the word threw in them

But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery--I like it. [5]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it..." He threw it on the table. [2]
But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
You'll prove that you threw a stone, or it shall go hard with you. [5]
Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
He sprang towards you over Faddo's body, even as you threw the lantern, and, catching his arm, you ran with him towards the dyke. [11]
He remained at Yale two years, and then threw up the struggle. [5]
The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
Then, without a word, he took from his pocket the little phial that he had carried so long, rolled it for an instant in his palm, felt its worn, discoloured cork musingly, and threw it out of the window. [11]
Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
Then, bustling about with feverish activity, and constantly saying, "Welcome, welcome," he arranged his bench, seated the King on it, by the hearth, threw some faggots on the fire, and finally fell to pacing the floor with a nervous stride. [5]
She said something with an edge, her face all snapping angry, threw the things down, and called me a heathen and a wicked heretic--and I don't say now but she'd a right to do it. [11]
Out of the windows of the Senate House the soldiers threw chairs into the Square for fuel and kindled fires there. [2]
Melissa threw her whole soul into the dance while Demeter was seeking the lost Persephone, her thoughts were with her brothers; and she laughed as heartily as any one at the jests with which Iambe cheered the stricken mother. [10]
He threw his whole energies into his studies with an effect which distanced all his previous efforts. [6]
But the man who threw it was not to blame, for he was excited, and a person who is excited never can throw straight. [5]
Hastily pushing the white hair back from her brow, she threw a veil over it, and hurried through the camp to the spot where the election was taking place. [10]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. [5]
With a cry which was no longer doubt, but agonized apprehension, she threw the Thing from her with a motion of both hands and feet; and, as she did so, she felt a horrible cold air breathing from a bloodless body, chill her hand. [11]
The keenness with which he threw himself into the discussion and the knowledge he showed, surprised me. [11]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
Farrar released the wheel and threw the Maria into the wind. [9]
Then with the wet scarf he had used to bathe her face he wiped the blood from the stone flags and, picking up the gun, he threw it upon a couch. [13]
The moment we were in the road I ran; and after a moment he threw dignity aside and followed. [5]
When the armies were encamped near each other at Raza and Argish, Rodoll cut off the heads of parties he captured going to the Turkish camp, and threw them into the enemy's trenches. [4]
I am no weakling, but when we wrestled he soon threw me. [10]
So with that we threw all the stones on him, and then left him. [5]
Before we stopped we met a troop of travelling journeymen, and our mother, in the gratitude of her heart, threw them a thaler, and said "Drink to my happiness; to-day is my birthday. [10]
In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
A lamp which was still burning hung from the ceiling, but Frau Ratzer raised the tallow candle she had carried to the door, threw its light upon her face, and nodded approvingly. [10]
The last extremity was reached when the collection-plate began its rounds; the moderate people threw in pennies, the nobles and the rich contributed silver, but she laid a twenty-mark gold piece upon the book-rest before her with a sounding slap! [5]
When the heat was greatest and the spiritual gloom thickest the American threw out the sand-bags, as it were, and hope mounted again. [11]
All her life was but labour and pain; and she never threw down the burden for the sake of present pleasure. [14]
The dwarf Nemu was brought before the Regent and threw himself on the ground at his feet. [10]
At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
When the slow voice ceased, and the room became still, she lay quiet for a moment, letting the new thing find secure lodgment in her thought; then, suddenly, she raised herself and threw her arms round her mother in a passion of affection. [11]
One of the very commonest remarks to be found in this bewildering array of Thug confessions is this: "Strangled him and threw him an a well! [5]
The day was very cloudy and the sun threw no shadows at all; but the man was satisfied that if the sun had come out and made shadows it could not have made any for him. [5]
The physicians became very anxious about his health, but when they sent him medicine he threw it away. [10]
The explosion threw us all to the ground, and covered us with dirt and debris; it frightened us extremely, too, for the crash it made was deafening, and the violence of the shock made the ground tremble. [5]
He threw at us a startled look that was a question. [9]
I went slowly upstairs, threw off my clothes mechanically, and tumbled into bed. [9]
She threw herself upon the great couch in an agony of despair. [11]
It so worked upon her that she put her hands to her ears, hurried to her room, and threw herself upon the bed in a distress she could set down to no real cause. [11]
Claudia threw herself upon a couch; Ulrich left her to procure a gondola. [10]
The Colonel threw up his head in anger. [11]
Monsieur Vigo threw up his hands. [9]
The Duchess threw up her hands. [11]
So I sat up all night, and followed the relief party in the morning, and you nearly disfigured me for life when you threw that bottle into the woods. [9]
He threw an uneasy glance into the chaise. [9]
In the cemetery Ulrich threw three handfuls of earth into the open grave, then with drooping head returned home. [10]
Her back was turned to him, and he threw the berry out of the window. [11]
Then suddenly she turned and threw herself upon the bed, bursting into a passion of tears. [11]
The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. [2]
Hitherto Barbara had troubled herself very little about political affairs, and her interest in them died completely when a visitor called who threw them, as well as everything else, wholly into the shade. [10]
One of the torches threw its light full on his manly face. [10]
Dolokhov, without answering, took the cloak, threw it over Matrena, and wrapped her up in it. [2]
Almost feverishly she took off the clothes she wore and hastily threw them from her. [11]
They all started to their feet, and Ranulph, running to the front door, threw it open. [11]
She ran forward to the wall and threw up her hands against it. [11]
Roscoe immediately bent to the oars, I threw an arm around Justine, and in a moment Roscoe had towed us into safer quarters. [11]
Moreover, please explain to the company why you threw no stone. [5]
Shon was about to speak, but Pierre threw a restraining glance, and, instead, they all looked through the doorway and beyond. [11]
I ran out to meet him, and he threw his arms about me on the street so that those who were passing smiled, for all knew the captain. [9]
Eudoxia went forward to meet her; Mary threw herself into her arms, and before her governess could ask any questions she told her that she had been chosen to accomplish a great and important action. [10]
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]
The color rushed to her own cheeks, and shortly saying: "No--after all, I think not," she turned her back on the old man and threw herself on the cushions close to where the wine-jug was standing. [10]
She was about to hand it back to him, but an inspiration seemed to seize her, and she threw it on the floor and put her heel upon it. [11]
She was about to break the twig, but she hesitated and said: "If I were sure that you--" She threw the spray away, and continued: "This is silly! [5]
He waved it to and fro in his wild harangue; he threw up his arms towards the ominous gloom, and with blatant fury ordered open the prison doors. [11]
Suddenly Byng went to a window and threw it open. [11]
They dragged her to a tree and threw a rope over the limb, and began to make a noose in it, some holding her, meantime, and she crying and begging, and her young daughter looking on and weeping, but afraid to say or do anything. [5]
Away flew the tidings, broadcast, and people threw off their carpet slippers and dressing gowns, and some who had gone to bed got up again. [9]
Our big hound threw you down-and he has terrible teeth. [10]
But the emigrants threw up earthworks, made fortresses of their wagons and defended themselves gallantly and successfully for five days! [5]
The jury finally threw themselves back upon the indisputable fact that Selby was dead, that either wound would have killed him (admitted by the doctors), and rendered a verdict that he died from pistol-shot wounds inflicted by a pistol in the hands of Laura Hawkins. [5]
At last Lancy threw the knife away into the fire. [11]
And yet she threw the costly birthday gift aside as if the flowers were apple parings. [10]
At last he threw the book aside and watched anxiously for the morning. [10]
The soldiers, who threw sidelong glances at Pierre, got the fire to burn and placed an iron pot on it into which they broke some dried bread and put a little dripping. [2]
When South America threw off the thraldom of Spain, his speeches were read at the head of her armies by Bolivar. [7]
I swung back, threw off my cloak and up my weapon. [11]
When the dog threw me down I must have hit it against the stone step. [10]
This gentleman's title threw his name so far into the shade that I had known the pleasant couple five weeks before I found it was Belfinger. [10]
When the day-laborer threw his hoe over his shoulder, the poor rascal was rid of toil and anxiety; but they pursued him everywhere, night and day. [10]
The Honorable Heth threw his butt away, and lighted another cigar. [9]
After which he threw himself back in his chair and said: "Well, I'm particularly damned! [11]
Some of them threw him out neck and crop. [9]
Sobbing aloud, she threw herself at his feet, confessed that she was guilty, and remorsefully admitted that fear of his resentment, which seemed to her more terrible than death, had induced her to deny what she had done. [10]
Then Daphne herself threw her arms around his neck with fervent devotion. [10]
At last he threw doubt upon the pedigree of a bull. [11]
Children and elders threw coppers, which he picked up, with a little nod of his head, a malicious sort of smile on his lips. [11]

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