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thrown out

vb. (past participle of throw out English)

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Usage examples of "thrown out".

For, it was not so much his uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out--a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump.

As for my character, I perceive, by some hints she hath thrown out, he hath been very free with it, but I forgive him.

Gradually, however, as the years passed, the City had thrown out a long brick-feeler here and there, curving, extending, and coalescing, until at last the little cottages had been gripped round by these red tentacles, and had been absorbed to make room for the modern villa.

Quinn formed them up into two waves of four Intruders each, with the Hornets thrown out ahead in case any more interceptors tried to block the attack.

Say there were temporary clothes, meant to be thrown out when styles changed, and clothes meant to last longer.

Where he had been thrown out of the garden of chemistry, however, his eponymous hero remained eternally welcome in Africa.

Unless you can weave fifty pieces of fine silk in three days you will be thrown out of this house.

For, it was not so much his uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out—.

He broke his kneecap in 1768, when he was thrown out of a carriage of his own design, and was after that always slightly lame.

The strategic position of the post is such that in the event of a Navajo outbreak the troops could be readily thrown out between the reservation and the thickly populated districts of New Mexico.

We've thrown out the winos and the drug dealers and started fixing up the building next door.

In order to mask this disposition two thousand foreign archers were thrown out in front, who kept up a heavy discharge as the enemy's line came on.