Use tossed in a sentence
Sentences ending with tossed
- He withdrew with me to the apartment assigned for my slumbers, and slept sweetly on the same pillow where I waked and tossed. [6]
Short sentences using tossed
- Kitty tossed her head. [11]
- He tossed his cheroot away. [11]
Sentences containing tossed two or more times
- Now he went back to his treasure-house and carefully placed himself just as he had been standing when he tossed the marble away; then he took another marble from his pocket and tossed it in the same way, saying: "Brother, go find your brother! [5]
More example sentences with the word tossed in them
- She was a woman, she was beautiful, she was a siren who had lured him and used him and tossed him by. [11]
- The dark spruces were tipped with glimmering lights; the aspens bent low in the winds, as waves in a tempest at sea; the forest of oaks tossed wildly and shone with gleams of fire. [13]
- Very likely they were soiled pencil notes, written to some school sweetheart --to "Becky Thatcher," perhaps--and tossed across at lucky moments, or otherwise, with happy or disastrous results. [5]
- He forgot it was he who had left her room, and had set up his own tabernacle, because his hours differed from hers, and because she tossed in her bed at nights, and that made him restless too. [11]
- Then she caught up an apple from the dish she had brought in, and tossed it to him. [11]
- It was not until two mornings later that Hugh tossed her across the breakfast table a pink envelope with a wide flap and rough edges. [9]
- Our oars were tossed, Ivie caught our bows, and reached his hand to Dorothy. [9]
- The young men tossed the ball back and forth; they made some wild shots, but they kept it going, and they laughed when they were hit. [8]
- The officer contemptuously tossed it back, and now, a little more courteous, ordered me against the wall, and I let my cloak fall to the ground. [11]
- He saw Iberville tossed here and there, but with impossible strength and good fortune reach the lad. [11]
- Miss Monflathers only tossed her head in reply, and the great gate closed upon a bursting heart. [12]
- After I had tossed her half of the nuts, which I had just bought, I felt happier than I had for many a day, and I would certainly have given her some money, though only a little . [10]
- There I was, tossed aside for a flyaway, who was for any man that would come her way. [11]
- The storm had tossed and torn her garment and tumbled all her thick, white hair, so that locks of it fell over her face. [10]
- He would have tossed and fidgeted, as his nerves demanded, but he was afraid he might wake Sid. [5]
- These necessities were tossed across, sometimes wrapped in the Vicksburg news-sheet printed on the white side of a homely green wall paper. [9]
- I rode on, tossed about in my mind. [11]
- At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called, formerly, a "nervous fever. [6]
- One could have tossed a biscuit on the stone wharfs where the workmen, crouching over their tasks, straightened up at sight of us and cheered. [9]
- We might have tossed a biscuit aboard the big Serapis as she glided ahead of us. [9]
- 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 tossed the tin cup with its chemical fires full in his face, as he made a dash for me. [11]
- He tried several times to join in the conversation, but his remarks were tossed aside each time like a cork thrown out of the water, and he could not jest with them. [2]
- The old Master thinks he is open to conviction on all subjects; but if you meddle with some of his notions and don't get tossed on his horns as if a bull had hold of you, I should call you lucky. [6]
- Ingolby tossed, and they stooped over to look at the dollar on the floor. [11]
- The minister thought these matters over until his mind was bewildered with doubts and tossed to and fro on that stormy deep of thought heaving forever beneath the conflict of windy dogmas. [6]
- And she tossed there while her fury burned and burned, and finally burned itself out. [13]
- They jumped to their feet, as if possessed, and one of them tossed his cup through the lattice work and vines overhead. [10]
- I took up the wash-list, as if to see that it was all right, and then tossed it on the table, with pretended forgetfulness. [5]
- The more absolute the submission demanded, the stronger the temptation becomes to those who have been long tossed among doubts and conflicts. [6]
- It bounced against the shaft of a column, and then fell on the shaven head of a priestling, who seized it and tossed it back. [10]
- The wind from the sea drove the clouds before it across the sky, and the plain covered with tents resembled a sea tossed into high white waves. [10]
- His air became the one of careless ease habitual to the little gentleman we had met at Windsor, and he drew from his pocket one of his guineas, which he tossed in the man's palm. [9]
- The exhilaration of the long spring-board, the necessity of holding on to something or somebody to prevent being tossed overboard, put occupants in a larkish mood that they might never attain in an ordinary vehicle. [4]
- And presently, after the ladies were gone, the gentlemen tossed off their wine and roared over their jokes, and followed into the drawing-room. [9]
- It seemed, on the instant, as if the whole crew were tossed into the water; but some had successfully clutched the boat's side, and Hungerford hung by a rope with one hand. [11]
- Crozier calmly withdrew the cartridges and then tossed the weapon back on the table. [11]
- There were dreams that tossed and mingled in one whirlpool vision; and then at last came a dream which was so cruel and clear that it froze his senses. [11]
- Iberville tossed his sword aside, and presently wrung the blood from his white sleeve. [11]
- And now the stranger stepped back one pace, took off his soldier-cap, tossed it into the wing, and began to speak, with deliberation, nobody listening, everybody laughing and whispering. [5]
- At the one spot where this torrent tossed its white mane highest, and thundered loudest, and lashed the big boulders fiercest, the canton had done itself the honor to build the flimsiest wooden bridge that exists in the world. [5]
- Rather would she spend her whole life on a ship's deck, tossed to and fro by the surges, than share this man's fate. [10]
- A violent crash sounded through the silent and sacred place, and loud echoes were tossed from side to side, ringing ominously throughout the grotto. [10]
- Now they were silent, because they had tossed into the abyss of Time the cup of trembling, and had drunk of the chalice of peace. [11]
- She tossed from side to side; a hundred thoughts came and went. [11]
- He tossed from side to side. [11]
- He tossed from side to side, he sought to control himself, but it was of no avail. [11]
- He tossed from side to side, and murmured brokenly. [11]
- She had been self-sufficient enough all her life,--"an independent little bird of freedom," as Crozier had called her; but she was like a boat tossed on mountainous waves now. [11]
- Did it not seem probable that the Great Machine had, in its automatic movement, tossed him up again on the shores of Time because he had not fallen on the trap-door predestined for his eternal exit? [11]
- There is no scene, no picture, in the heroic times more pleasing than the meeting of Ulysses with this damsel on the wild seashore of Scheria, where the Wanderer had been tossed ashore by the tempest. [4]
- At Weinsberg he saw Count Helfenstein rush upon the spears, and when the noble countess was driven past him to Heilbronn in the dung-cart, he tossed his cap in the air with the rest. [10]
- A crew of saints cabined in those little caravels and tossed about on that coast for six weeks would scarcely keep in good humor. [4]
- The wind had risen, for one thing, and the little boat was so tossed about by the vigorous waves that the skipper declared it would be imprudent to attempt to land on the Rip-Raps. [4]
- Mizraim had seen removal follow upon removal, and the dark Nile flowed on gloomily, silently, faithful to the helpless ones tossed into its bosom. [11]
- There was no question of sleep, for the events of the day and surmises for the morrow tortured me as I tossed in the heat. [9]
- And the fiend picked out a big stone water trough and tossed Miller against it. [9]
- She took out one roll after another; then she tossed them all out on to the floor till the bottom of the chest was bare--but the gold was really gone, nowhere to be found. [10]
- It tossed her on a sea of agitation. [11]
- The landlord tossed on a bench several garments spread over the backs of two chairs to dry, and hung in their place the dripping cloaks of the baron and his son. [10]
- The arrogant lips of the young man tightened; he tossed up his head. [11]
- But the cry of the poor is tossed about by many winds before it reaches the king's ear. [10]
- I can see now his great, liquid, dark eyes, and his exquisite face, and the way he tossed back his long waving hair when he struck into his part. [4]
- All the first night of this new imprisonment I tossed on my wretched bed in pain and misery. [11]
- His clothes were nearly gone, his hair was tossed and matted, his eyes bloodshot, his big hands like pieces of raw meat, his feet covered with blood. [11]
- The company was much tossed about in the rough waves of the bay, and had great difficulty in procuring drinking-water. [4]
- Barbara, who was moving about in the kitchen and just on the point of catching three chickens to kill them, let them live a little longer, and even tossed half a handful of barley into their coop, as she heard her sister-in-law come singing down-stairs. [10]
- At the same moment his horse leaped upward with all four feet at once, tossed its clever head convulsively, and sank on its knees. [10]
- After about ten minutes' walk he was brought to a small wooden house, the door was thrown open, he was tossed inside, and the soldiers entered after. [11]
- When he tossed me up and laughed, I laughed too, and it seemed as if all Nature must laugh with us. [10]
- Pleasant as you may think it to be in Memphis with your lover, fair heart-breaker, you will have to make way for the plaything you have so lightly tossed aside! [10]
- But his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a moment before she disappeared. [5]
- She who had lightly tossed lovers aside, her coquetry appeased, had to himself shown sincerity without coquetry, loyalty without selfishness. [11]
- He, also, had left a note for me, on that same fatal afternoon--had ridden up on horseback, and looked through the window, and being in a hurry and not seeing me, had tossed the note into the cabin through a broken pane. [5]
- So this noble leech is not good enough for the like of us; he may be tossed away like a date-stone that we spit out? [10]
- On a cart laden with bread and rice two fellaheen stood and handed, or tossed out, food to the crowd--token of a death in high places. [11]
- But Brydon raised John Rupert up, balanced himself, and tossed him at the pier, where two river-drivers stood stretching out their arms. [11]
- As a bone is tossed to a dog, she gave it to him. [11]
- The sailor's cap, into which I tossed it with the rest, will burst when Seleukus pays me for the portrait of his daughter; and if a thief robs you, and me too, we need not fret over it. [10]
- For a brief instant Mallory and the Indian fell apart, then Athabasca with a contemptuous fairness tossed his knife away, and ran in on his man. [11]
- She marked the inevitable false rhyme of Cockney and Yankee beginners, morn and dawn, and tossed the verses on the pile of papers she had finished. [6]
- Once or twice, in the intimate and somewhat uproarious badinage that had been tossed back and forth in the drawing-room after dinner, her delicacy had been offended: an air of revelry had prevailed, enhanced by the arrival of whiskey-and-soda on a tray. [9]
- The blood tossed in his veins. [11]
- As he tossed in his bed and his head turned restlessly on his pillow, Krool's face kept coming before him, and it was the last thing he saw, ominous and strange, before he fell into a heavy but troubled sleep. [11]
- A body cast in here is likely to tarry for days, eddying round and round, and tossed in that terrible maelstrom, before a chance current ejects it, and sends it down the fierce rapids below. [4]
- With little ceremony I tossed back the crown, and slowly repeated those words used to warn the Trojans against accepting the Grecian horse: "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. [9]
- Again and again I spied the distance, while a whole army of thoughts and terrors tossed my soul. [10]
- Well I remember how he tossed me in his arms under that tree when I had thrashed another lad for speaking ill of him. [9]
- When he opened his mouth and tossed back his head, he filled the church with exquisite melody. [4]
- He had tossed his fame as an admiral into the gutter, but Bercy still was left. [11]
- Blows rattled on him, and one or two he got on the head, just as he tossed a man spinning senseless across the grass, which sent him staggering backwards for a moment, sick and stunned. [11]
- The seas tossed him here and there. [11]
- There was a high wind blowing, and the sage tossed and waved and colored beautifully from light to dark. [13]
- And if our heroine be somewhat rudely tossed from one boulder to another, if we fail wholly to understand her emotions and her acts, we must blame the canon. [9]
- Dolly glanced at her dress, tossed her head, and marched back alone. [9]
- Virginia tossed her head in exasperation. [9]
- Darius tossed his head a little. [11]
- Duc was laughing: he reached over for an epaulette, tossed it up, caught it and threw it down with a guffaw. [11]
- He tossed about, he counted every step of the late night birds on his gallery; he got up and lighted a cigar, and tried dispassionately to think the matter over. [4]
- The men now, having been kept at the oars ten days, tossed about by storms, and with nothing to eat but bread rotten from the wet, supposed that the Captain would turn about and go home. [4]
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