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.
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.
This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing.
The money involved was a trifling sum.
Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance, the sean triubhais, the Highland reel, the sailors' hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.
The backs have overcome their attacking troubles, and shuffling players around in positions seems to have paid off.
One hint could have been that his nomination brought immediate praise from both industry groups and Congressional republicans) and the topper of them all Bush sicophant Stephen Johnson (who famously sided with Buah and big industry in hampering states from enforcing higher greenhouse emmision standards and stifling his own Depts requests and reports on environmental problems). Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 8, 2010
Reshuffling the department by transferring teachers to other position will not be of great help to our learners.
He and Hannah had been scuffling in the yard outside his house.
As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling. The Sun
Install Leech Killer 1.5 and kill junk messages with flings.
She could hear her sister shuffling along the hard floor.
He had a fling with his neighbour's wife.
Shuffling to her classroom, she was quickly joined by her best friend Sara, who was also over bundled to help dull the harsh bite of the December wind.
These sculptures, and others, are juxtaposed with coins, medals, gems, seals, enamels, ivory carving, a cassone, a parade shield, moulded leather and even a waffling iron.
But completely baffling if you grew up with rationing. Times, Sunday Times
Spent on some trifling matter? THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; 'and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit
Then the saint up and done a marvelous straange thing, for he flinged them feesh back in the well, just as they was, and began praayin 'to the Lard to forgive his man. Lying Prophets
The recalls for Barrow and Beveridge are just reshuffling.
Nash tried to brake and the last thing I remember was his arm flinging out to try and stop me from flying out of the car.
the stifling of all dissent
He drew from his pocket a sheet of folded paper and placed upon the end of his nose his famous gold 'lorgnon': "It is very trifling, one of those directives, as Monsieur de Moltke says, which serve to guide operations, a plan of action which we will modify after discussion. Cosmopolis — Complete
The hurt or injury need not be serious or permanent but must be more than trifling or transient.
At a desk to the very side of the room, a very overweight, red-faced man was shuffling through some files and stuffing them into Manila folders.
Oh, nothin 'p'tic'lar," answered Ans, flinging his hat at a chicken that made as though to come in, and rolling up his sleeves preparatory to sozzling his face at the sink. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen
In theory it keeps your shots more consistent because the amount of force it takes to launch the bullet into the rifling is uniform from shot-to-shot. Rifles of Interest: Remington Model 700 Custom Shop AWR II
It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a trick he kept attempting, like dice. Spring « Unknowing
The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast. Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
Alongside the body are a series of baffling codes, which Langdon is asked to decipher.
Their affair is just a summer fling, he tells his mother - nothing serious.
Perhaps in their heyday around 2006-2007, they were overwhelmed with the explosive rowth, however it was reported that prior to the recent management shuffling, they had a 1000 employees? Why MySpace Is Really GeoCities 2.0
At last she heard the cautious, stuffless tread of his rubber-soled shoes shuffling along the hall. The Lodger
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
The entrepreneurial spirit and social innovation fostered by a market economy has benefited many, and should not be overly encumbered by stifling regulations.
Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling.
Besides revealing our solar system to be far more cluttered than astronomers had suspected, these piffling objects are providing new clues about what conditions were like during the system's infancy.
Another baffling call from our friends the bookmakers as they quoted Waterford at a very generous 6 / 4.
Gibraltar has had to set up special holding zones for cars and pedestrians stuck in stifling heat. The Sun
Marriage and long-term commitment have to mean more than short-term self-gratification, otherwise what separates them from a holiday fling?
He was the humorous and satirical idyllist _par excellence_, and laid the scenes of his romances in idyllic surroundings, using the trifling events of daily life to wonderful purpose. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
His challenge to Doerflinger was to defend, in a nonarbitrary way and without reference to religious principles, the notion that society should recognize moral value and legal rights at any particular point along that line. The Democrats and the Abortion Wars
Rifling through a funky set that included bass-heavy grooves like "It's Ice," "NICU" and "The Moma Dance," Phish kicked off its fall tour in improv-laden style. Colin St. John: Phish Maintains Its Colorado Connection
The scuffling of boots and the softer clip-clop of a woman's heels brought his thoughts from Caroline.
Take a look at the clip on my website and you'll see security helping him back to his feet, stifling their laughs. The Sun
The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
As for Nicolas Sarkozy, the brief warm fling with the French president, when the two men were brothers-in-arms over the Libyan intervention, has soured into a bitter animosity. Now it's three-speed Europe. And we're left on the hard shoulder | Andrew Rawnsley
In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world. Times, Sunday Times
Then it was Robinson's turn to star, flinging himself to the right and palming Paul Gallagher's shot past the post.
But Benedict, however "charming," is still stifling theologians who challenge ideas about Catholicism, says Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and former editor of the Jesuit-owned magazine America. U.S. visit will give pope a defining moment
Once, I heard something scuffling inside one of the forbidden rooms, as if a cat or other animal was scratching their paws over the walls.
Strew the mozzarella and tomatoes over the pizzas, then add the pancetta, ruffling it up a bit.
It was a dim, twilit gloom filled the enormous tunnels, muffling all hints of life within them.
I would have bet that the conventional rifling of the Douglas barrel would have been more accurate.
The youth club leader was unpopular with the young people because he was always flinging his weight about.
Our financing system is increasingly risk averse, which is stifling entrepreneurship and innovation. Ten Questions For Diane Hendricks
You can go to your local theater on Christmas Day and watch "" Stepmom, '' in which Susan Sarandon, instead of shuffling off her mortal coil, smiles beamingly at the camera in a happy family portrait in the last frame. Death Takes A Hike
There was some bloke on the phone waffling about an airline ticket.
Genes recombine by fusing in whole or in part, by a process known as exon shuffling exons are the separate stretches of code that are used to make one protein in split genes. Don't Look for the Soul in the Language of DNA
I squeaked in surprise, flinging my hand sideways and knocking half a dozen books off the shelf.
Maria, to bring money to her family and escape a stifling existence in her small Colombian town, risks becoming a mule for a drug ring.
This is all completely baffling to the international mind. Times, Sunday Times
In what could be described as the oddest pairing since the alleged Eminem/Kim Basinger fling, TMZ. com reports that Chelsea Handler and 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) were spotted getting "hot and heavy" at a New Orleans club Sunday night. Rumor Mill: Chelsea Handler dating 50 Cent?
There were baffling, unanswerable teasers such as: why is a left foot either ‘trusty’ or ‘educated’ but a right foot is neither?
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence...
If a long-lasting relationship develops out of the fling, so be it.
It is baffling why the Department of Defense has made this ruling.
The titillating details that have emerged about their four-month fling have also made the story irresistible.
They were sick of religiosity in all its forms, just as they were sick of the Order's omnipresent and stifling holism. THE BROKEN GOD
He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work.
And, what's even more galling, we've been told that the sum involved is comparatively trifling, a drop in the ocean of the department's annual budget of €41 billion.
As far as memorable moments go, the final fling of the Westmorland Orchestra concert season promises to be a real gem in the ensemble's diamond jubilee year.
He sat at his seat behind the desk shuffling his papers around angrily.
Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep.
Ryan growled with exasperation and pulled the covers back over him, even though he was stifling hot.
Then early in the Obama administration, regulators threw the real estate industry a bone, expanding a financial rescue program, the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF), to commercial-mortgage-backed securities, thereby muffling calls for a broader industry rescue. The Other Shoe
And, having reached a nice rounded and witty conclusion, I'm going to spoil it by waffling on and qualifying what I've said.
Stowing away his "dunnage," therefore, in the after deck - house, and flinging his bedding into the berth which he selected for his own occupation, he quickly rejoined the mate, who furnished him with book and pencil, and stationed him at the after hatchway to take account of everything which passed down that receptacle. The Missing Merchantman
He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!” At a Welsh Wedding
With vehement signs and maffling cries he showed us he was come out from Hayil to seek me.
Colombian President Andres Pastrana, a light breeze riffling his silvered hair, steps forward to accept this generous gift from the American people.
One could almost believe that at any moment Scott and his men would come shuffling in, hang up their deerskin coats and start boiling a brew.
The rifling for the entire length of the tube must be smooth and free of burrs and scars.
A robust civil society can check on budgets, seek and publish information, challenge stifling bureaucracies, protect private property, and monitor service delivery.
Although they lost a piffling $100,000 on the unintended sale, some industry experts feel it is a small price to pay for the kind of publicity the airline website got.
Mark Your Calendars all right, you archaeologic adventurers, it looks to be official: May 22, 2008 is the day senior citizen, Indiana Jones, comes back to the big screen, flinging his whip and cane at the bad guys. Archive 2007-02-01
the stifling atmosphere
Some people nuisance of seasonal hay fever, snuffling and sneezing as pollen flows through the air.
Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally). SF Weekly | Complete Issue
When compared to the whole federal budget, the money spent on welfare is trifling, especially when you look at other, truly wasteful federal budget items.
With its directives on the correct shape of fruit, production quotas, wine lakes and butter mountains the EU is baffling at the best of times.
This may seem a trifling matter considering his wealth but famous people don't often do that sort of thing. Times, Sunday Times
This is interesting as this type of rifling generally yields poor results with cast lead-alloy bullets unless they are gas-checked or very hard.
One looked at her and then fell back heavily, flinging her hockey stick to the side.
Their basic relationship goes into one emotional compartment and flings in another. The Sun
Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface. Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
I discovered my husband rifling through the filing cabinet.
Upon this noblest youth -- so far in advance of his rude and turbulent time -- throw a horror that no philosophy, birth, nor training can resist -- one of those weights beneath which all humanity bows shuddering; cast over him a stifling dream, where only the soul can act, and the limbs refuse their offices; have him pushed along by Fate to the lowering, ruinous catastrophe; and you see the dramatic chainwork of a part which he who would enact Hamlet must fulfil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
But a funny thing happened this week: in our final fling for the year, the props came pouring in from all over, and suddenly, this whole enterprise doesn't seem quite so otiose.
With the way she had carried on smiling, stifling the grief, putting on her brave face to the world?
A conga line of people were shuffling about in white paint. Times, Sunday Times
Following the collision he became moody and headstrong, his speech delivery was very slow and he walked with a slow shuffling gait.
All were loaded with the bullet seated .010-inch off the rifling, in Winchester cases with CCI large rifle magnum primers.
It is time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state.
They piled these in the shed, and Aphrodite settled herself beside them in the stifling shade. COUP D'ETAT
I mean, if the GOP wants to try to use pure rhetorical radar chaff to stymy Democratic bills, the Dems had better learn to respond by simply flinging it back at them. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | House GOPers Make Bid To Derail FISA Legislation
We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed.
His abilities as an advocate evoked general admiration, though he did not succeed in baffling the prosecution.
There was a scuffling and two of the employees ran off in the same direction, Angel stood and waited patiently, but felt all of the establishment's eyes upon her.
Some people love hot weather, but I find it oppressive and stifling and generally unpleasant.
After having thus repeated the neck three times, and wee yen, or way yen as often, they all burst out into a kind of loud and joyous laugh, flinging up their hats and caps into the air, capering about and perhaps kissing the girls. Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives
In truth, the music didn't really take off - the church was stifling, people were shuffling on their feet and the music ebbed and flowed, promising climaxes that it didn't deliver, and tip-toeing around solemnity.
To the casual visitor to France, a country of high-speed trains, well-stocked municipal flower beds and sit-down lunches, such French glumness is baffling.
There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice.
And when that political class gets their feathers ruffled, you want to look and see who's doing the "ruffling" and get behind that man or woman. Archive 2005-08-07
She was alive, but everlastingly inaccessible, and Alberg found this baffling and frustrating. SLEEP WHILE I SING
The only thing to do is to fling caution to the winds and make a decision,right or wrong;anything is better than uncertainty.
Their basic relationship goes into one emotional compartment and flings in another. The Sun
I mean, the sht flinging Baboon is a veritable luminary in the field of politics. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 20, 2010
The dog buried his nose up to his ears in the cotton fabric, huffing and snuffling as he drank in the scent.
There is also a growing market for new soft drinks such as clear, healthy-looking flavoured waters, herbal waters and teas, with a baffling range of flavours to choose from.
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence...
Flinging back her head, she laughed and laughed.
Motivating oneself . Emotional self - control -- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness -- underlies accomplishment of every sort.
‘Flinging about bits of tusk to see what's showing on the topsides requires no concentration,’ I assure you, he replied.
After its risible opening - Princeton admissions officers rifling through applications under cloying voiceover - the movie only sinks lower.
A minute after, Sir John flings the body of the jackanape down to them, and cries that the siller is fund, and that they should come up and help him. Redgauntlet
Perhaps if one refrained from singing because you loved the sound of your voice, people would be less likely to scoop up ordure and fling it at your head.
But this traps them into replacing one orthodoxy with another, stifling rather than expanding debate.
The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
The title comes from an image of a moth so in love with a flame that it keeps flinging itself into a candle until it combusts.
But the flesh-coloured chiffon was covered in delicate embroidery and the revealing bodice took refuge in an ultra feminine jacket with dainty ruffling on the collar and cuff.
And to photograph the dovecote full of multicolored pigeons, all billing, cooing, and scuffling.
It was something trifling; in fact, I didn't even remember what triggered it.
Plato sees democracy as imposing stifling bureaucracy on gifted individuals.
With a quick flinging swerve, they cast themselves to the side of safety and the foot would come loose with the "cloop" of an opening bottle. Patsy
After shuffling though many books and cooking websites I decided to make salmon pasty, a salad of greens, frumenty, and fruit pudding.
Choosing yoghurt has become as baffling as buying light bulbs. Times, Sunday Times
As much as he found managing a gym stifling, he has always been invigorated by the challenge of building a better gym from scratch.
He was an auld, doddering man, a maffling, feckless auld doit.
Little bits fall off the car, some trifling part has been improperly milled, a mechanic makes a mistake.
The benefits from shuffling the chairs are at best unproven. Times, Sunday Times
And what's more baffling is that they counted us out even though there's the wild card, too. USATODAY.com - Cardinal fans' impatience rewarded
He picked up the loose ball, cut inside then out onto his left foot, before rifling the ball past Julian Speroni into the far corner.
I have done almost no birding, except yesterday when I saw a Hooded Butcherbird sitting on a coconut frond, tilting back its head and ruffling its pied plumage as it whistled its loud, musical song.
Malls are fluid constructs, shifting and reshuffling to meet the whims of fashion and the market, but you assume that a few places will stay around forever.
You may recall that Season Four's ending experienced a bit of schedule reshuffling.
Adding to the incompetence is ministerial reshuffling - a move that seeks to resolve non-performance and curtail corruption.
They have no idea of how sick the American People are of their constant “waffling” and their constant caving-in to the right. Congress Shows It's "Backbone" Again! Progressives Need to Stand-Up!
Oddly, the vision I have of the newly divorced woman flinging herself onto a bed covered in currency is not born out by the figures. Archive 2007-10-14
With the Stoney Point tool we determined it would be impossible to seat these short 40 gr. bullets anywhere near the rifling in either rifle.
We started to laugh again, muffling our sniggers with our mittened hands.
Our new neighbor is always flinging his money about, with his color television and his new car every year.
I've had less bradykinesia, which is the shuffling and the kind of halting movement. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009
a trifling matter
I always thought rugby was about running and passing and tackling, but it has become a game of scrabbling about until the next baffling penalty is given. Times, Sunday Times
What seems to many a trifling matter of wording could have profound consequences.
For will any of sound discretion approve of my being beaten as a boy, because, by playing at ball, I made less progress in studies which I was to learn, only that, as a man, I might play more unbeseemingly? and what else did he who beat me? who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I when beaten at ball by a play-fellow? The First Book
A cool breeze brushed his face, ruffling his hair.
There was no serious scuffling and no punches thrown.
Retailers have to cope with stifling religious and social strictures. Times, Sunday Times
There were pillars, shadows, memorial brasses, boys scuffling and swopping stamps behind Prayer Books; the sound of a rusty pump; the Doctor booming, about immortality and quitting ourselves like men; and The Waves
For those of a certain tribal cast of Irish-Australian mind, such questions of geography and chronology are trifling.
With the lie of Scottish theatreland already shifting, we are seeing a nascent, semiconscious shuffling for position for next year's awards.
Medieval man may not have had the thrill of flinging Frisbees, but they had a worthy counterpart, the challenging sport of batfowling.
On all of these instruments will be found his name, surrounded with a design in purfling, under the finger-board, or his monogram executed in purfling. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
Sex and the City was a great series, with a lot to say about today's apparently liberating, but strangely stifling society.
His baffling new case involves a woman long presumed dead, and a mysterious ransom note sent to the man accused of her murder. The Sun
This measurement must be made on the bullet ogive where it first contacts the rifling.
Across his homeland, people are flinging themselves into his plays with as much confidence and conviction as if they were written yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Some one was shuffling by on the sidewalk.
Raúl experiences a stifling home life in what already feels like a hopelessly backward and decadent society. The Times Literary Supplement
A profound boom shook the bearbaiting den, flinging Rytlock backward against the half-wall. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
It remains to be seen whether these changes are more successful than previous attempts at shuffling around of departmental boundaries. Times, Sunday Times
All that scuffling, all the muffled cries, and nothing.
There was some bloke on the phone waffling about an airline ticket.
The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
I still don’t know if “cut” rifling is better than “button”, or if a hammer-forged barrel is best. The Most Important Part of a Rifle
He sat up suddenly and turned to jack, who was riffling through some papers on his desk.
But completely baffling if you grew up with rationing. Times, Sunday Times
In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.
But he never stops scuffling, even when bumming a ride on the rails from Chicago to San Francisco.
The barrel can be rifled and this rifling causes the projectile to spin, increasing its accuracy.
He opened fire, the silencers muffling the gunfire to a small puff noise.
The idle boast recently that New Labour were bang on target to ‘lift’ a predetermined number of children out of poverty was baffling.
The barkeeper was the only human in the establishment; all of the patrons were stout, broad-faced halflings. Curse of the Shadowmage
The traffic came to a screeching halt and the faceless multitudes shuffling along the pavements actually paused to turn and look at the cause of it all.
Several hundred people were crammed into the stifling room.
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I find it hard to imagine any activity more baffling than curling and the luge.
As the film's title suggests, however, theirs is a summer fling.

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