Throw is an English word with synonyms like cast or direct. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Throw in a sentence
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Throw meaning
- To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
Synonyms of Throw
Using Throw
- The main meaning on this page is: To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air. | To eject or cause to fall off. | To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- Useful related words include: cast, discombobulate, direct, give.
- In the example corpus, throw often appears in combinations such as: to throw, free throw, throw the.
Example sentences (20)
However, if a free throw is awarded and the half or game ends, a direct throw at the goal is typically attempted, which occasionally goes in. A seven-metre throw.
A good throw would likely have gotten him, but Tim Locastro’s throw was wide of the plate by a good 8 feet and bounced under Alvarez’s glove, and Stevenson scored to make it 3-2.
BedSure’s Warm Faux Fur Throw has racked up nearly 16,000 five-star reviews from shoppers, who argue that this budget-friendly throw looks — and feels — like pure luxury.
If players are still struggling to deal enough damage to Deathgaze, Shadow's Throw ability can be used to throw weapons at it.
Saturday, he grabbed silver in the discus throw with a 51.52-meter throw.
This was after a Donovan Mitchell missed second free throw attempt which would have tied the game at 114, for clarification, and after a missed follow of his own free throw miss.
You can throw John McClane in a building barefoot, and he'll make it or if you throw him in an airport, he'll make it.
Chopra registered a huge throw of 89.34 metres in Group B of the men’s javelin throw qualification round at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday and made his way into the finals.
He influenced habits behind the scenes, encouraging starters to throw their bullpens earlier, so they could all watch each other throw before team stretches, and publicly when he voiced his desire to pitch deeper into games.
The striker called for a change in the rules of throw-ins, suggesting that as long as the thrower has two hands on the ball, the direction of the throw should not matter.
We should throw them out, throw them into the sea, where the coast guards brought 106 human souls.
Also, the game plan was to throw it inside, either throw it in there or dribble.
He made clutch free throw after clutch free throw and finished the night a perfect 11-of-11 from the stripe.
In another impressive performance from the siblings, it took 17-year-old Phethisang just one throw at last year's ASA Youth and Junior Track and Field Championships to be crowned champion of the hammer throw in her age category.
It is the biggest throw in the world this season so far but seeing this throw in isolation would give us an unfair idea.
Jones is a good QB, but he needs to learn that he can’t make every throw and he shouldn’t try to make every throw.
Book’s most replayed throw came in the fourth quarter when he tried to throw a ball away but instead committed an unintended assault on a poor Louisville cheerleader.
Castrate the bafon, throw him in the dungeon hell and throw the keys in the Pacific ocean.
For every barb and chant they throw at him, Trump always seems to have a zinger up his sleeve to throw back at them.
In a game that featured 53 fouls and 63 free throw attempts, the free throw line was important, and Oneida took advantage.
Common combinations with throw
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to throw 50×
- free throw 22×
- throw the 17×
- and throw 17×
- throw in 15×
- throw to 11×
- throw away 9×
- throw out 8×
- throw and 7×
- you throw 6×