threw over

past tense of throw over

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of threw over On third-and-7, Fields threw over the middle to receiver Josh Reynolds for 6 yards, short of the first-down marker. Devon Henderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 Though Brock Purdy threw over 300 yards in his return from injury, the Jaguars' defense caused five turnovers, including a strip sack that sealed the game in the fourth quarter. James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for threw over
Verb
  • Through more than a decade of running a business and raising a son, Whebbe and Paoli refused to give up on getting the Book Lady’s books into the hands of people who will love them.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2025
  • While thousands focused on the federal government at the rally, at least one woman seemed more concentrated on calling out how Attorney General Andrea Campbell has refused to enforce the legislative audit that state voters approved last November.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Comey received a slight boost in his case to plead his innocence earlier this week when a judge rejected federal prosecutors’ effort to impose broad restrictions on the evidence Comey can access ahead of trial.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The news caused Salesforce shares to surge as management rejected Wall Street’s narrative of sluggish revenue growth that’s been weighing on investor sentiment in 2025.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski previously declined to comment on whether King is linked to the alleged harassing phone calls.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Blue Devils — who had played just five possessions of zone defense all year to that point, per Synergy — threw out a 2-3 zone.
    Jim Root, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Two lower courts threw out the lawsuit after concluding that the congressman lacked standing -- or the legal right to bring a lawsuit -- because the plaintiffs could not prove the policy harmed them.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Threw over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threw%20over. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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