Example sentences for: tossed

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

  • Most authorities in these matters [cf. Darwin Ortiz's Gambling Scams , p. 189] agree that the broads tossed or faked in three-card monte [XXII,3,15, item 5] are not specifically the queens; rather, the reference is to pasteboards that are wider than the standard deck (viz. pokersized cards vs. bridge-sized), which makes cheating by sleight-of-hand easier in that game.

  • Reporters initially preserved an air of dignity by couching their questions in terms of perjury, but they soon tossed aside that fig leaf and pounced on the subject everyone wanted to know about: Did Clinton and Lewinsky have sex?

  • Laramie Daily Boomerag (Boomerang, said to be named after the first publisher's mule, but some Wyoming news veterans say it's because when the newsboy tossed copies onto the reader's porches, the readers threw it back).

  • Then come the ubiquitous images--dude on surfboard, girl being tossed in blanket, crowd cheering--that link the product (be it deodorant or dentures, the Bahamas or a beverage) with that oldest persuader of them all: sex.

  • In retrospect, then, it may have been not merely a romantic comedy with a little product placement tossed in; it may have been an attempt to soften the ground for AOL's latest acquisition.


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