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How to use the word throws in a Sentence? Page #4

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It throws your immune system off kilter.

Ian Myles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It throws off the way your body responds...and by the time you recognize it, it will have gotten worse.

Ian Myles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The battle scenes are gruelling, we play a game of who can get rid of their shield first, because it’s so heavy and it throws your back out. You have all that gear on. It’s the most exhausting filming I’ve ever done.

Alexander Ludwig

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Samuel Johnson

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10 years ago

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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10 years ago

He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.

The Talmud

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12 years ago

Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.

Cicero

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12 years ago

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Shakespeare

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13 years ago

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Tom Robbins

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13 years ago

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark, former baseball coach

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13 years ago

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Latin Proverb

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14 years ago

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Titus Livius

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14 years ago

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Stephen William Hawking

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14 years ago

How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world.

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison

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14 years ago

Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

Signs

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14 years ago

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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14 years ago

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles

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14 years ago

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