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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Threwpreterite of throw.

    A broken rock the force of Pyrrhus threw:
    Full on his ankle fell the pond’rous stone,
    Burst the strong nerves, and crash’d the solid bone. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. threw

    The word "threw" is the simple past tense of the verb "throw." It refers to the action of propelling or launching an object through the air with force, using one's arm or hand.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Threw

    imp. of Throw

  2. Threw

    of Throw

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Threw

    thrōō, pa.t. of throw.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'THREW' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3227

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'THREW' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3578

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of THREW in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of THREW in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of THREW in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Nembhard:

    With him coming off so many ball screens and us switching up coverages, I think it kind of threw him off.

  2. Adrienne Gusoff:

    Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

  3. Brian Jordan:

    The only reason I'm sitting here is because someone threw my name into this whole thing.

  4. Bob Melvin:

    He said he did. I didn’t think he did, and then in the meantime Rhino was telling me after talking to our replay that it was a foul ball and he thought he was talking to him and threw Rhino out. So I was trying to defend Rhino and tell him that he was telling me that it was a foul ball, not him, and I stayed out there too long. I shouldn’t have gotten thrown out but I was trying to defend Rhino.

  5. Josh Kelly:

    I think the quarterback is a special player, we threw everything at him. We blitzed him, played cover zero, rushed three and dropped everyone else back into coverage. I think we threw the entire kitchen sink at him and he handled everything.

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