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  • verb Present participle of fling.

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Examples

  • My mom doesn't even remember those days -- too much has happened since, and there's no use in flinging it in her teeth.

    ccfinlay: New readers ccfinlay 2005

  • HBO says boxing analyst Jim Lampley is recovering from surgery to heal a torn biceps suffered when he was too strenuous in flinging a dead rat, at his home, with his swimming pool skimmer.

    USATODAY.com - McEnroe brothers double up to analyze Wimbledon play 2003

  • Suddenly the brute in the chair spoke, or rather shrieked in Chinese, flinging out a pointing hand of which two fingers were sheathed in nail-cases.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Suddenly the brute in the chair spoke, or rather shrieked in Chinese, flinging out a pointing hand of which two fingers were sheathed in nail-cases.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • "Prink half an hour, and put on her wad," answered the irreverent Tom, whose preparations for school consisted in flinging his cap on to his head, and strapping up several big books, that looked as if they were sometimes used as weapons of defence.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • The sea persisted in flinging them upon her bit of sand, and she persisted, until her strength failed, in thrusting them back into the sea where the sharks tore at them and devoured them.

    The House of Mapuhi 1911

  • The sea persisted in flinging them upon her bit of sand, and she persisted, until her strength failed, in thrusting them back into the sea where the sharks tore at them and devoured them.

    The House of Mapuhi 1909

  • Little use there'd be in flinging away more lives to save those that's as as good as gone already.

    Parables From Nature 1857

  • Darling du Jour: ” … she turned back to Fanny and started swearing in Spanish, flinging her arms around like she was guiding a very flamboyant airplane onto a very bumpy runway.”

    September 19, 2008 2008

  • But even in my own year that never happens, theres name flinging obviously but mostly in fun.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What a jerk! Deserves more than a bottle to the head. 2007

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