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throw back

VERB
  1. throw back with a quick, light motion
    She tossed back her head

How To Use throw back In A Sentence

  • It was delicious, and a throw back to my mum's 70s dinner party recipes like stroganoff.
  • If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
  • A visit to the city zoo was not considered complete unless one teased a monkey and made it snarl or got it to throw back the banana or nuts thrown at it.
  • It is also asking bankside fishermen to throw back all the fish they catch. Times, Sunday Times
  • We agree to the statement that 'each object has a particular reflecting surface of its own,' as we cannot see how _its_ particular surface could be the property of another, -- but why this should make the surface 'throw back light at its own angle' we do not exactly fathom, and we are puzzled to know _which is the owner of the said angle_, the light or the surface. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
  • If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
  • He never made a creature necessarily useless, nor gave a life which it was not sin on the creature's part to hold unthankfully and throw back as a poor gift. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
  • He drew away slowly, with no angry retort to throw back at her.
  • How many directors dare tell any diva that the first thing they want her to do, as she makes her grand entrance, is dip her head in a bucket and throw back her hair, spraying an arc of water across the stage?
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