Example sentences for: tossed

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

  • By the time they have reached the end of the line of children, they have tossed off a whole catalog of obscenities I did not even hear until I was well into adolescence, let alone use in casual conversation on a public street.

  • Another fine old premise right down the dumper, tossed away like TV variety shows and the idea that cheese is a health food.

  • Grass was yanked out by its roots and tossed onto the compost heap.

  • It's hard to write about this performance, because it's so natural that it looks tossed off, and especially because Witherspoon, quite deliberately, doesn't put across much presence --compared with an old-time star, or a technical wizard like Meryl Streep, she seems kind of small.

  • At a time when dumb one-liners and tasteless jokes can be tossed off on TV and elsewhere as examples of wit without causing anyone to cringe, perhaps the moment has arrived to make some distinctions and straighten out the nomenclature among those terms that fall under the umbrella of eliciting laughter.


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