Thesaurus results for FLINGING

flinging

verb

present participle of fling

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 players rotated quickly, setting flurries of picks and cutting, creating space by driving to the basket, stretching the defense to the point of breaking, and then flinging the ball to the open man in the corner. —

Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 June 2026 My summer version of Jay Gatsby flinging his silk shirts over a balcony is filling a room with dainty cotton blouses and dresses in sweet floral motifs. —

Irene Richardson, InStyle, 5 June 2026 Here's Joe Biden's worst trade acquisition, Brittney Griner, flinging Angel Reese around like a rag doll to take us home. —

Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 But with the far right ascendant, simply flinging open the country’s borders would be too great a political risk. —

Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026 Another video showed Chonkers reemerging from the water, flinging himself onto a dock full of smaller sea lions who, save for one apparently brave animal, fled at the sight and reverberations of their massive neighbor. —

Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026 Sam instead proposes that the performer dance to it without music, a prompt that is followed by Anne Hathaway flinging herself across the room, dragging her body across the floor in a hypnotic spectacle that seems to convey struggle, possession, and loss of control. —

Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026 Theron, meanwhile, hurls herself into the sinewy action sequences that have increasingly been her home turf over the past two decades, flinging herself down hills and into rivers and navigating some precarious rock-climbing terrain. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026 After flinging the puck into the offensive zone, he and Kings winger Jeff Malott got tangled along the benches. —

Peter Baugh, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026

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The bear was completely oblivious to this crowd of people screaming and throwing things at it.

— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 21 June 2026
There is a real distinction between a city unified by five fine starting players in a game that originally involved throwing a ball into a peach basket and that, however improbably, became the city game, and the bloody display in the nation’s capital.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 June 2026