as in throwing
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
flinging rocks into the pond just for the fun of it
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Recent Examples of flinging
The side brush on this model can also lift itself out of the way to avoid spreading stains and flinging large particles.
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PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Video and photos from Phoenix show street signs trembling from the wind as the storm swept through the city and its surrounding areas, picking up debris and flinging it around.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
At the time of the incident, video of Almanzar flinging her mic into the crowd after a concertgoer threw their drink at the rapper went viral.
—Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Once a wunderkind freshman at ThunderRidge, the 6-foot-2 Boston College commit spent the last two years flinging the rock in Georgia.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025
The routines regularly saw Ferrell flinging the petite Oteri into the air or upside down, but miraculously her only accident across the 17 sketches came from a splash of water.
—EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
It's thought that the bubbles are likely the result of an ancient, violent outburst from the Milky Way's central black hole, which spewed twin jets of matter above and below the galactic plane simultaneously, scooping up nearby matter in the process and flinging it outward into space.
—Brandon Specktor, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2025
The jet had hit severe turbulence, flinging people into the ceiling, and service carts across the cabin.
—Renée Rigdon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Video and photos from Phoenix show street signs trembling from the wind as the storm swept through the city and its surrounding areas, picking up debris and flinging it around.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
At the time of the incident, video of Almanzar flinging her mic into the crowd after a concertgoer threw their drink at the rapper went viral.
—Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Once a wunderkind freshman at ThunderRidge, the 6-foot-2 Boston College commit spent the last two years flinging the rock in Georgia.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025
The routines regularly saw Ferrell flinging the petite Oteri into the air or upside down, but miraculously her only accident across the 17 sketches came from a splash of water.
—EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
It's thought that the bubbles are likely the result of an ancient, violent outburst from the Milky Way's central black hole, which spewed twin jets of matter above and below the galactic plane simultaneously, scooping up nearby matter in the process and flinging it outward into space.
—Brandon Specktor, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2025
The jet had hit severe turbulence, flinging people into the ceiling, and service carts across the cabin.
—Renée Rigdon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flinging
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As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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In the show, following Conrad's surprise arrival in Paris the day before Belly's 22nd birthday, the pair spent some time together sightseeing before heading to the party Belly's Parisian friends were throwing her.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Some protesters forced their way into the parliament complex by breaking through a barricade, a local official said, setting fire to an ambulance, hurling objects at riot police, and ferrying the injured to the hospital on motorcycles.—
Gopal Sharma,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Born in what is now Zimbabwe, Bland spent hours as a child hurling stones at telegraph poles.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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During that span, Browning went 4-3 as the team’s starter while tossing 12 touchdowns to just seven interceptions.—
Kambui Bomani,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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After tossing a few MAGA hats to the crowd, Kirk sat down under the canopy to take questions.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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New York's iconic Russ & Daughters celebrates 100 years of slinging bagels and lox this year.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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Dunn allegedly shouted at a group of federal officers before slinging the salami sandwich at one of them.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Flinging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flinging. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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