thrown out

past participle of throw out
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of thrown out After schlepping his way up to P-town, spying on Nancy smooching a guy from work, and being thrown out of a local eatery known as the Flagship for drunken assholery, Bourdain begins his journey in earnest. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026 Most of that expense is the work of teaching thousands of point-of-sale systems which specific products qualify in which specific state—a definition that shifts every time a waiver is approved, amended or thrown out. Elie Y. Katz, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 The hippies would be thrown out of the hotel by my aunt and uncle that were very conservative. Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026 Per head coach Brian Schottenheimer’s policy, Ezeiruaku was thrown out of practice, as he was escorted out by a member of the front office. Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026 Mold was found growing on teaching supplies, desks, furniture and library books, among other things, in the special education school, and all the items had to be thrown out. Jennifer Borrasso, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 On a mission to build a more equitable food system, Kanbe’s Market is taking items typically thrown out and making them into accessible, affordable meals for families. Zuri Primos july 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 There might have been some fines thrown out there or an OTA practice or something lost. Mike Kaye july 26, Charlotte Observer, 26 July 2026 Maduro and Flores last appeared in court in March, where his lawyers unsuccessfully pushed to have the case thrown out because the Treasury Department had blocked the Venezuelan government from paying Maduro's defense lawyers. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrown out
Verb
  • The pilot safely ejected and is in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • It has not been confirmed whether the pilot was auto-ejected.
    Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • The Swannanoa River, across Highway 70 from Barker's street, rose to historic levels after Hurricane Helene dumped intense rainfall on the Appalachian region, after the area had already been hit by a storm just days before.
    Ginger Zee, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The wind whips up sewage dried to a powder that's been dumped for years onto an arid riverbed near the fishing settlement of Rehri Goth, on the outskirts of the Pakistani port city of Karachi.
    Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The extended chords radiated color, but despite the influence of hip-hop and video-game music, the playing felt less mischievous than relentlessly mechanical.
    Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Gomez radiated in another stunning look for a Rare Beginnings campaign video.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • In February, Trump appointee Vinay Prasad—a Kennedy ally—refused to even review the vaccine, despite objections from FDA staff and career officials, shocking Moderna and the larger biomedical community.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Thursday's vote was along party lines, and came after Fauci refused to answer lawmakers' questions in a hearing last week about the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
    Eric McDaniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Thiel mentioned the news outlet Gawker, which had recently outed him as gay.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • And what happens to someone who’s been outed like that, as a fake?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann made a convincing case for an unwieldy composition whose autographed score was given by Wagner's daughter-in-law, Winifried, to Hitler and lost in the destruction that ended World War II.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The date stood out to Browning, who’d lost thousands in anticipated shillings when 584 steerage and 253 second-class passengers chose drowning in a Canadian river over registering at one of his boarding houses near the port of Liverpool.
    Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But Jesus eventually heals the man and casts the demons into a herd of pigs, which tumble over a cliff and drown.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Of the 1,032,963 ballots already cast, state officials say 959,805 mail-in ballots have been received.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Crump has also rejected notions from law enforcement officials that Wells may have drowned, citing the teenager’s ability to swim well and his athletic past.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Florida Crystals consistently rejected those criticisms, saying the company complied with environmental regulations, invested heavily in conservation and upheld labor standards.
    Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026

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