Example sentences for: throw

How can you use “throw” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here's my second criterion of rationality: If you're choosing between two lotteries with identical chances to win, then your preference should be unaffected if I throw in a consolation prize that you get if you lose in either case.

  • And as in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Japan appealed to Malay nationalism to throw off the Western imperialist yoke in a movement of Asian solidarity — an “Asia for the Asians” spearheaded by Japan’s Imperial Army.

  • [Lit. to throw one's hat over the windmills]

  • But Benigni's movie made me want to throw up.

  • Still, the combination of this report and last week's Employment Cost Index (which showed worker compensation rising faster than at any time since 1991) should throw at least a hint of caution into the New Economy advocates, those who are convinced that inflation is permanently dead and that the computer has forever revolutionized the productivity equation.


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