THROW in a Sentence

Learn THROW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
297 example sentences for THROW, such as:
1. His throw to first base went wide.
2. Do not throw rubbish onto the ground.
3. If you do I will throw it in the gutter.
4. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
5. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of THROW
throw
 v.  organize or be responsible for
 v.  get rid of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You think it's riding a pretty horse and having the girls throw flowers at you and coming home a hero.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  If you do I will throw it in the gutter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  But Sherman flanked them again, crossing the stream above them, and the weary gray files were forced to hurry across the yellow water and throw themselves again between the invaders and Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  There was nothing else she did have, nothing but this red land, this land she had been willing to throw away like a torn handkerchief only a few minutes before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  I think you're real rude to throw off on my poor hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Raging as she was at his attack on Ashley, she would have given anything to spit on him and throw his offer of money proudly into his mocking face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  But, she promised herself, never, never would she again try to prod him into words of love, never again would she try to make him throw away that foolish honor he valued more than love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  She remembered her promise given last winter in the orchard, that she would never again throw herself at his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  The whip cracked and the startled horse went off at a wild gallop that threatened to throw the buggy into the ditch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  "Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot," said Scarlett grudgingly, but she did not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  But now, at the actual crisis, this difference seemed to throw the weight of destitution on Bertha's side, since at least he had her to suffer for, and she had only herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
13  A soiled man and woman munch sandwiches and throw the crusts on the floor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  She longed to be able to throw into her voice the facile passion of a light woman.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1  Although it rains, throw not away your watering pot.
2  He watched the kids throw water around with amused tolerance.
3  Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
4  Don't throw away the apple because of the core.
5  Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
6  Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
7  His throw to first base went wide.
8  You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little bit.
9  Don't throw out your dirty water before you get in fresh.
10  As soon as the bristles on your toothbrush begin to wear, throw it out.
11  A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
12  Do not throw rubbish onto the ground.
13  If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
14  They throw their shadows before them who carry their lantern on their back.
15  The defense wants the district Judge to throw out the case.