Example sentences for: thrown

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

  • In this he is in the dark company of most members of the Russian Duma and provincial legislatures, a generation of former Soviet officials thrown into democratic forums for which they have no instinct and little respect.

  • The Times of London, noting that Haider's result "has thrown the country's politics into turmoil, frightened investors and brought closer to power the leader of the largest and most radical far-right party in Europe," said Monday in an editorial that it is a disaster for Social Democrat Chancellor Viktor Klima, an embarrassment for Austria, and "a triumph for a man whose political prejudices have shattered the country's cosy and often corrupt consensus."

  • I went to a New Year's Eve party thrown by a friend, at her loft.

  • Not the "Christmas season" but the "holiday season"--a euphemism for "Christmas with Hanukkah (and, perhaps, Kwanzaa) thrown in."

  • But in the space of three days it has thrown that strategy over, in favor of a massive bid for a company that it will find very difficult to integrate with, from both a regulatory and an operational perspective.


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