Chucking; unsettling

Usage examples of throwing.

At 0928 all four LVT waves were approaching the beach in line, not one of the 84 amphtracs falling behind more than a couple of lengths, their cupped tracks churning the blue water into curling sheepskins of white foam, their square bows throwing spray until everyone on board was drenched, but nobody cared.

The people were milling around in anticipation, some throwing spears of their own down the well-trampled course.

Crauford, in his favorite antithetical phrase, throwing himself in his attitude against the chimney-piece.

Throwing the book she was reading aside, she took up the barracan, settling the semitransparent folds around her.

Closely followed by de Batz, he soon turned into the central corridor, which is open to the sky above, and was spectrally alight now with flag-stones and walls gleaming beneath the silvery sheen of the moon, and throwing back the fantastic elongated shadows of the two men as they walked.

Then he splashed down some benzene, and this benzene caught fire by itself, throwing a wave of flame up to the very ceiling.

They moved up and down the stands almost like peanut vendors in the States, calling out the constantly changing odds, throwing some kind of ball to prospective bettors, who put their money in a slot in the ball and took out the chit with the current line.

Using the base salary figures that Blitz and the others were throwing around, though, he could easily afford it.

Paige toyed with him, throwing blooper pitches and curveballs in the dirt, and the crowd laughed and that was his second K, jack.

My spear, my boomerang, my throwing club, you brought them on the camel with us, and they are in the outhouse.

I got another part of the picture, a picture of Mona Brassard throwing dice in a posh club in Tahoe and laughing her head off about the poor clod searching all over Vegas for her.

She started as she perceived the poet, who walked slowly past her to the staircase, throwing his burnous back from his big shoulders, and stood looking after him.

As it did so, from the shrouded group of desert men one started forward to the palanquin, throwing off his burnous and gesticulating with thin naked arms, as if about to commit some violent act.

According to those maggots in Rome and in Londinium, Terra and Firma commit treason by refusing to bankrupt themselves throwing good money after bad.

Harrington was throwing in inconceivable flourishes, while Malemute Kid, utterly abandoned, had seized the broom and was executing mad gyrations on his own account.