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Example sentences for "tosses"

Lexicographically close words:
torula; torus; toss; tosse; tossed; tossing; tossings; tost; tosto; tot
  1. The Woodcutter, swelling with importance, tosses a gulden on the Innkeeper's table, to wipe out an old score, but pockets it again when unobserved.

  2. Rama and Lakshmana revive, and on being sprinkled with drops of amrita brought by Garura, the latter with a shaft decapitates Meghnada, and tosses the head into the hands of his father Ravana.

  3. No breeze shakes the blossoms or tosses the grain; But the wind of our speed floats the galloper's mane, As he feels the bold rider's firm hand on the rein.

  4. The sick in these receptacles are attended by an apothecary's boy, who brings them (or I suppose tosses them) medicines without distinction or enquiry.

  5. Oswald stirs, opens his eyes, tosses feebly, and in low tones says: "A squall!

  6. In noisiest turbulence of typhoon wrath this reserved Englishman sways and tosses with the ship's motion, raptly listening to low-pitched, soft-keyed voice rising above the storm.

  7. There is another quiet lapse, then the patient tosses feverishly.

  8. Near the rut made by a lumber team, she tosses a handful of wintergreen berries like flecks of coral for me to garner, and lifts a sudden torch of scarlet oak against some wood-recess black and deep as a cave.

  9. As I look she tosses the water from her cup, and it falls in a great arc of sun-spray against the dusk of the woods.

  10. The little fellow tosses his arms aloft, and gazes at it.

  11. Kitty tosses her curls, pats you on the arm, and says, "Jealous, hey?

  12. When a striker fails to hit, he tosses the cat back to the fielder and tries again.

  13. The fielder--any boy not a striker is now a fielder--tosses the cat, and if it is missed there is no count.

  14. Sometimes a stone or a chip, moistened on one side is used, and the boy who tosses it up shouts, "Wet or dry?

  15. Come and play wif us," lisps a little maiden of five summers, whom Philip tosses on his shoulder with good-natured ease.

  16. A low laugh ripples from her lips, she rises and tosses the volume aside.

  17. Miss Thorpe,--she tosses the child about in a way that'd fair curdle your blood!

  18. A glare of dust and sunshine tosses together behind it, and settles down.

  19. Darkness had fallen thick by this time, and we took some bad tosses among the bogs.

  20. He took some fearsome tosses in shell-holes, but partly erect and partly on all fours he did the fifty yards and tumbled into a Turkish trench right on top of a dead man.

  21. But not so the distressed Phoenician, nor does she ever sink asleep or take the night upon eyes or breast; her pain redoubles, and her love swells to renewed madness, as she tosses on the strong tide of wrath.

  22. To her smilingly the designer of men and things: 'Jove's own sister thou art, and second seed of Saturn, such surge of wrath tosses within thy breast!

  23. During speech crosses to up-stage side of bed, angrily tosses quilt to floor and sits on bed in tears.

  24. Notices faded flowers in vase on table; takes them out, tosses them into fireplace, replaces them with gardenias which she wears.

  25. The Cormorant has a small sabre-shaped bone at the back of its vertex; which bone may serve as a lever in throwing back the head, when the animal tosses the fishes into the air and catches them in its open mouth.

  26. The player in the center tosses the ball high up within the circle, at the same time calling the number of some player.

  27. The center player tosses the ball to anyone in the outside ring and runs out.

  28. If he catches the ball he tosses it up and calls the number of some other player.

  29. If the ball is not caught the first player again tosses it up.

  30. One point is counted for every ball caught, and the side with the highest score after twenty tosses wins.

  31. She tosses her cigarette into the grate, and lights another.

  32. She snatches his bath-robe and tosses it behind the door.

  33. But if you won't--" He tosses off the cocktail and sets down the glass, smacking his lips.

  34. When they are all uprooted and prostrate, he changes his weapon for a fork, with which he tosses them about and shakes them free of soil and gathers them into heaps.

  35. Every second or third egg he tosses aside, having detected, as it passed through the said strainer that age had rendered it unsuitable for his purposes; sometimes he does not detect this.

  36. He again tosses it to his arm; back again to his neck; and after a few gambols of this sort, he finally, by a masterly jerk, throws the stone of fourteen pounds weight round his head.

  37. She tosses that red head of hers and stamps on, not saying a word.

  38. She tosses her head, but it don't displease her.

  39. He tosses from side to side, babbles, and, at last, unable to endure his excitement, begins crying.

  40. The number of his impressions, together with exhaustion and hunger, are too much for him; he is as hot as though he were on fire, and tosses from, side to side.

  41. The opening ceremony requires the ball to be handled and moved in a peculiar and ceremonial manner by the hand of the Umpire before he tosses it up for the beginning of the actual play.

  42. If one tosses the bowl and the stones fall in such manner as to make a combination that does not count, there is no forfeit; the player merely fails to score any points.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tosses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.