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US
/ˈfɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /flˈɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /flˈɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of flinging
- a brief indulgence of your impulses
-
a usually brief attempt
I gave it a whirl
he took a crack at it
VERB
-
move in an abrupt or headlong manner
He flung himself onto the sofa -
throw or cast away
Put away your worries -
throw with force or recklessness
fling the frisbee -
indulge oneself
I splurged on a new TV
How To Use fling In A Sentence
- The man played idly with a deck of cards, shuffling and re-shuffling with a bit of a smirk on his face.
- The hurt or injury need not be serious or permanent but must be more than trifling or transient.
- I instantly grew a floppy fringe, bought a combat jacket and started shuffling.
- Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- A shuffling street drinker with a string of convictions over eight lost years, she is now notorious as the woman who exposes herself in public.
- Claire looked at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably in place.
- Clay, read how ishawooadescribed that round and think, high pressuer, could it have been an overcharge ... undercharge ... could the rifling been shot out at the chamber mouth .. all these can cause the indicators he listed, bullet set out alittle could not cause this "unless" there was an excessive gap at the chamber mouth. An Unequal Progress in Accuracy
- He pulls out a drawer beside me, and starts riffling through it, obviously he doesn't find what he's looking for, because he slams the drawer a moment later and opens the one below it.
- Using his special truffling stick, he extracts the truffle from between the roots.