Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of fling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
fling .
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- verb Simple past of
fling . - verb Past participle of
fling
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Examples
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Wives he should have by fifties and hundreds if he wanted them, she thought in her great-heartedness, reflecting on the one whose threatened pretensions to be his mate were slain by the title flung at her, and merited.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Wives he should have by fifties and hundreds if he wanted them, she thought in her great - heartedness, reflecting on the one whose threatened pretensions to be his mate were slain by the title flung at her, and merited.
The Tragic Comedians — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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Wives he should have by fifties and hundreds if he wanted them, she thought in her great-heartedness, reflecting on the one whose threatened pretensions to be his mate were slain by the title flung at her, and merited.
The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Unable to remain flung up on the beach, pounded ever back toward the beach by the perpetual shoreward rush of the kanaka surf, the up-piled water escaped to the sea by way of the channel and in the form of under-tow along the bottom under the breakers.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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You can't even spell Archimedes! you are about as far flung from the Greek namesake as one could get!
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You can't even spell Archimedes! you are about as far flung from the Greek namesake as one could get!
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Semin flung a pass from the right circle behind his back to Ovechkin, who had a wide-open left side to put in his shot.
USATODAY.com 2008
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I have had the “constitutional law professor” title flung at me in arguments with left-wingers many, many times, because that is the prevailing belief.
Obama and the law: about that little thing called “procedure” 2010
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Cotin flung himself at the Golden Sword, but Kyle spotted it and grabbed it first.
Juvenalia II: Action! ewillett 2008
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Villages, their white buildings like cubes of feta flung from the sky by the gods, clinging to the slopes of mountains, teetering on cliff edges, nestling in arid inland valleys.
prude 2007
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