fling
[flɪŋ]
Definition:
1. Throw or cast away.
2. Throw with force or recklessness.
3. Move in an abrupt or headlong manner.
4. Indulge oneself.
Use 'fling' in a sentence:
- 1. Joe's clothing was flung over the back of a chair.
- 2. She flung the letter down onto the table.
- 3. Fuentes tore off his hat and flung it to the ground.
- 4. He flung out an arm to stop her from falling.
- 5. He flung himself to the floor.
- 6. Peter flung his shoes into the corner.
- 7. Sweep me the room as clean as you can, up with the window, fling out my old man!
- 8. Talk about a cat's nine lives! 7. He's like a cat; fling him which way you will.
- 9. If you fling yourself at that boy, he's likely to run away.
- 10. He immediately flung himself to the floor.
- 11. They flung themselves into the preparations for the party.
- 12. He was determined to have one last fling before retiring.
- 13. The fling was just real-world evidence of a theory they were testing.
- 14. According to the new study, bully binaries form naturally and can each fling out dozens of runaways.
- 15. It recently emerged that Andre had enjoyed a brief fling with his blonde stylist following his divorce.
- 16. If she had had any lingering notion of exposing Alfred Temple, Tom's offensive fling had driven it entirely away.
- 17. This flame will stay lit through any weather a British summer may fling at it.
- 18. I will answer by doing the highland fling or the sailors hornpipe.
- 19. At that moment, the lift shuddered to a stop and the doors seemed to fling themselves wide open.
- 20. He flung it down on the desk.
- 21. You two had a fling.
- 22. Think monkeys are the only animals that fling their feces?
- 23. The anchorman flung his whole weight back, tightening the rope.
- 24. He had his enemies flung into prison .
- 25. He once seized my knitting, flinging it across the room.
- 26. Guys sometimes think it's OK to have that "one last fling".
- 27. The door was suddenly flung open.
- 28. She'd flung herself in a pose of melodramatic exhaustion.
- 29. He flung her to the ground.
- 30. She flung the papers on the desk and left angrily.
- 31. The woman flung the cup at him.
- 32. He's not married, but Brenner said he has two ex-wives who knew about his fling with Dolly.
- 33. If the star spun just 20% faster, the centrifugal force would fling it apart.
- 34. Someone had flung a brick through the window.
- 35. Fling her into the kitchen!
- 36. He flung the coin into the river.
- 37. "Fling the girl overboard," cried Hook.
- 38. She claims she had a brief fling with him 30 years ago.
- 39. They were flinging insults at each other.
- 40. The youth got him by the front of his shirt and flung him to the ground.
- 41. If you've been with someone for years and you're about to be married, what's the point of one final fling?
- 42. She flung herself onto the bed.
- 43. He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.
- 44. The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open.
- 45. Her grief-stricken mother has an inappropriate fling and flees to California.
- 46. Then, two years later, she was pregnant again from a casual fling. Baby Jane Roe was on the way.
- 47. I can fling off a poem in half an hour.
- 48. I flung myself into poetry.
- 49. He flung off his coat and collapsed on the sofa.
- 50. What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!
- 51. She flung herself into her career.
- 52. Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling.
- 53. Rachel burst out as the door was flung open again.
- 54. Don't fling your clothes about on the chair; hang them up.
- 55. She cried out in fear and flung both arms up to protect her face.
- 56. You can marry her, or have a fling with her.
- 57. If the fixed star spun just 20% faster, the centrifugal force would fling it apart.
- 58. She flung her arms around my neck and kissed me.
- 59. The speaker was just winding up when the door was flung open.
- 60. In the same instant he flung open the car door.