Example sentences for: throw

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

  • To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success.

  • His response is to throw a tantrum, and he stomps around, complaining--presumably at the top of his lungs, though the ad is silent except for the announcer's voice-over--at this unjust turn of events.

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 20 years ago, when the audience largely consisted of trail-end baby boomers likely to groove to Richard Dreyfuss' desire to throw off the shackles of adulthood and play.

  • With demons represented by priests wearing fearsome masks, onlookers throw beans to drive them away while shouting, “Demons out, good fortune in! ”

  • Miller occasionally writes a brilliant line, such as Willy's response to the callow boss who fires him after 35 years--"You can't eat an orange and throw the peel away."


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