throw up

How To Use throw up In A Sentence

• Gene pools can throw up unexpected affinities. Times, Sunday Times
• Red and yellow help to throw up the other colours in the design.
• Such an argument ignores the fact that all cultures throw up bad things as well as good. Times, Sunday Times
• The alluring charm of the FA Cup has always been in its ability to throw up incongruous situations. Times, Sunday Times
• Flot, derived from the French _flottant_, floating; and jet, from the verb _jeter_, to _throw up_; both used in seignoral rights, granted by kings to favourites, empowering them to take possession of the property of any man who might happen to be unfortunate, which was in those times tantamount to being guilty. Newton Forster The Merchant Service
• OPENING day Prem fixtures always throw up a few shock results. The Sun
• I don't watch much televised football because I think it dulls my enthusiasm when I'm playing but I've always made an exception when it comes to Old Firm matches because they always throw up talking points.
• The menu doesn't throw up any real surprises in the gastro era, although some of the mains are a bit pricey - £10 for a burger! Evening Standard - Home
• Nor do we view the tiny flame of our own kindling (guarded in lasting purity as its light ever is) with greater awe than the celestial fires though they are often shrouded in darkness; nor do we deem it a greater marvel than the craters of Etna, whose eruptions throw up stones from its depths and great masses of rock, and at times pour forth rivers of that pure and unmixed subterranean fire. On the Sublime
• Computers are also programmed to throw up details of cars that seem to have a lot of different drivers.