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Example sentences for "thrown over"

  • So likewise a safe edge flat file requires grinding on its safe edge, because in cutting the teeth a burr is thrown over on the safe edge, rendering it capable of scoring the work when filing close up to a shoulder.

  • Stop S may then be thrown over as in Fig.

  • Fancy what it would be to be thrown over at last!

  • You see Mr Melmotte is a very great man, but perhaps--something else has turned up, so that he may be thrown over.

  • On the three following days, the newly-married couple sit on the blanket, and rice is thrown over them.

  • Rice is thrown over them, and they are anointed and washed.

  • In the case of the remarriage of a widow, the bride and bridegroom take their seats, and rice is thrown over them.

  • The corpse is washed and laid on a plantain leaf, and a new cloth is thrown over it.

  • After it has been secured on the bier, a new red cloth is thrown over it.

  • Rice is thrown over them, and they are anointed.

  • This trough may be simply a ditch scratched in the ground; a piece of canvas should be thrown over it, if the soil be sandy, to keep the water from being lost before the cattle have time to drink it.

  • The bight of a cord, or of some substitute for one, may be thrown over a horse's head, and he can be dragged out by a team of cattle with but very little danger to his neck.

  • Do you suppose it is common for men who have been thrown over to write to the ladies who have rejected them immediately after their marriage?

  • After he had been induced to abandon his business in his own country, was he to be thrown over in that way?

  • The other man is in Parliament and can't be thrown over so easily--and it wasn't his fault.

  • She was to be thrown over by this chit of a girl, as she had been thrown over by the girl's brother!


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrown over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient temple; being seen; broken pottery; critical study; extreme degree; fashionable life; fixed point; good harbour; good idea; heart seemed; here given; learned brother; manufacturing industry; muscular strength; ordinary times; remark made; sheet iron; social work; still lives; thrown away; thrown back; thrown from; thrown open; thrown over; thrown overboard; thrown upon