thrown out

past participle of throw out
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of thrown out Pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas followed with an RBI single for a 7-4 lead, with Edman thrown out at home to end the inning. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 Busch took responsibility for ending the game by getting thrown out. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026 Sal Stewart was thrown out at the plate by Dodgers center fielder Tommy Edman to end the inning. — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney is planning to push for the charges against his client to be thrown out after her triple-murder case ended in a mistrial last week. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 The dads telling the dad who was thrown out to leave the beer. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Not even two weeks ago in Los Angeles, the Phillies had four runners thrown out at third and home in a two-game span. — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Entering Tuesday, Smith already had thrown out three base runners attempting to steal in his first week back. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Her game plan is thrown out of whack when a new girl, Ericka (Jasmine Amy Rogers), arrives from Ohio. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrown out
Verb
  • Montana captain Peyton Wing was ejected for targeting following a hit on Atkinson early in the second quarter.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • One passenger was fully ejected from the bus and another was partially ejected, police said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Separately, police said another woman was found dead on Sunday in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, her body wrapped in a duvet and dumped near a dam.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Eventually, the firms dumped the valuable slag into waste piles and wrote off the metals inside.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Joyful noise and other, impolite sounds radiated from the sets oscillating between the two sites.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Feliciano and Jones radiated energy and exuberance throughout their first press conference as the principal owners of the Padres.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But while making an unsuccessful 2024 Senate bid, in an interview with the Detroit Free Press editorial board, Rogers refused to answer who won the presidential contest in 2020.
    — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026
  • After Liviniti, the pharmacy benefit manager, refused coverage for Henderson, his family turned to Jefferson County.
    — Arthur Allen, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Co-owner John Mara is battling cancer, and co-owner Steve Tisch is laying low after being outed in the Epstein Files.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Photoplay’s feature Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives outed several of the era’s most bankable couples—Clark Gable and Carole Lombard among them—for the crime of cohabitating without paperwork.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In June, The Times of London reported that private schools throughout the UK have lost 30,000 pupils since January 2025, and about 100 independent schools have closed entirely.
    — Ashley Baker, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026
  • According to a July 23 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), NASA lost a fifth of its civil servant workforce in the past year, with impacts to more than two dozen major projects.
    — Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Voters in a few other states, including Minnesota and South Dakota, can cast absentee ballots in person, typically at a local election office or voting center.
    — ALI SWENSON, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • As Nazareth’s pep band rang in the victory, parents offered the Celtics words of comfort, pausing only to cast glares in the direction of administrators.
    — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Beijing has rejected such accusations as groundless and vowed to retaliate if Washington moves to target Chinese AI companies.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Kenda Tomes McClain, a candidate for mayor, asked the committee to allow the public to vote on the Royals stadium project, noting that Jackson County voters rejected a county plan for a Royals stadium in 2024.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Thrown out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrown%20out. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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