How To Use Toss-up In A Sentence
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He's so sunny and earnest that it's a toss-up whether to be charmed or vaguely nauseous.
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It's a toss-up whether oil prices will go up or down over the days ahead.
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This might not be one in the end -- but it was clearly a toss-up; and to consecrate a toss-up in this fashion with manufactured unction before a crowd of fashionable free-thinkers -- for who thought otherwise than freely, or not at all, when they were "dolled" up -- seemed to her as near
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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Although the Swiftech solution won the majority of the benchmarks, it is really a toss-up when you look closely at the numbers.
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The miss rate on our trend estimates -- districts where the leader in the poll averages ultimately lost -- increased in stair-step fashion from 6% in the likely or non-competitive districts, to 14% in districts rated as leaning to one party or the other to 28% in the toss-up races.
Explaining The Pollster-Dashboard U.S. House Model
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It's not his best work by far (that would be a toss-up between any of the other four roles I listed), but it's pretty incredible.
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Whether this is a result of poor writing or poor acting is a toss-up, but let's be generous and blame both.
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The three-way Alaska Senate race remains very much a toss-up and by far the biggest wild card, given the hard to measure write-in candidacy of incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, although either Murkowski or Republican nominee Joe Miller would caucus with the Republicans.
Final Election 2010 Polls Diverge: Will It Be Tsunami Or Bad Storm?
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Either way the net impact is relatively small, our current trend estimate gives Raese just a 1. 6-point edge (46.9% to 45.3%) -- very much a toss-up race.
New Polls Confirm Sestak's Rebound, Leads For Boxer And Brown
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It's pretty much a toss-up as to which arena is more cutthroat.
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Clearly, for longer-term investors, it's been a toss-up between the blue chips and mid-caps, with the latter winning out in recent years.
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At present that would probably be a toss-up between the vibrating Edward doll and the babygrow reading "My Mommy is a Bella" – but we'll deal with those once your stabilisers are off.
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Ken Rudin, our political junkie, is going to be with us, and we're going to look at the toss-up races in the House excuse me, in the Senate and the four state houses.
One Last Swing Through The Midterm Election Map
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For the worst of it was that these four children, with a very proper dislike of anything even faintly bordering on the sneakish, had a law, unalterable as those of the Medes and Persians, that one had to stand by the results of a toss-up, or a drawing of lots, or any other appeal to chance, however much one might happen to dislike the way things were turning out.
The Phoenix and the Carpet
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Snot ran copiously from my nose, an infuriating tickle, and I automatically wiped it with my right hand, just as Carrie came hurtling down from the toss-up.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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The $500 high-end contest, however, remains a toss-up.
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But even at this late stage, about ten are toss-ups.
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Our trend estimate, which also considers four polls earlier in the month showing very narrow Kitzhaber leads, now gives Dudley a less than one-point margin (46.6 to 46.2%) -- this race is still very much a toss-up.
Senate Polls Show West Virginia Leaning Blue, Nevada Tipping Red
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The race is now considered a toss-up according to the latest polls.
Yuna Shin: Ilario Pantano to Hold Fundraiser at a Shooting Range
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The new surveys narrow Toomey's lead on our trend estimate to just 2.2 percentage points (46.5% to 44.3%), and shifts Pennsylvania into our toss-up column.
New Polls Confirm Sestak's Rebound, Leads For Boxer And Brown
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Thus, there are four races where Republicans could pick up seats: two are toss-ups (Minnesota and New Jersey) and two are states where the Republicans have a slight lead (South Dakota and Missouri).
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My favourite comedy is a toss-up between City Lights and Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid.
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Republican Ken Buck has led Democratic Senator Michael Bennet on our trend estimate all year long, but the new polls narrow Buck's lead to roughly one percentage point (46.9% to 45.7%) and his probability of winning to just 64%, well within what we consider the "toss-up" range.
New PPP Polls Favor Joe Manchin, Michael Bennet In Senate Races
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The race between Mr. Nye, a former Foreign Service officer, and Mr. Rigell, the owner of Freedom Automotive, a chain of car dealerships, is a toss-up.
Virginia Fights Cuts to Defense
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Last week it was big news that the race is now a toss-up -- now this Times Herald article.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro: What Does an Endorsement Really Mean?
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It's a toss-up whether the buildings are the diminutive structures of a miniature golf course or the towers of the wide world beyond the backyard.
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Hazel, the proprietor, is in her sixties, and it's a toss-up as to whether she's more attached to her mother or her cats.
The Used World by Haven Kimmel: Book summary
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If the election is still a toss-up when the Pacific states start declaring, look for Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, where the two candidates were polling within a few percentage points of one another last week.
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Until 1997, leadership of the in vitro diagnostics sector of the medical device industry was pretty much a toss-up.
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It was a toss-up, Sport decided, as to who looked more surprised, Cochise or Joe.
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This might not be one in the end -- but it was clearly a toss-up; and to consecrate a toss-up in this fashion with manufactured unction before a crowd of fashionable free-thinkers -- for who thought otherwise than freely, or not at all, when they were "dolled" up -- seemed to her as near a sin as one could find in an age which had abolished them.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete
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It's a toss-up whether he counts as "a character with a normal head," but he did sometimes appear in an "unevolved" normal state before changing to his "super-evolved"/big-headed or unevolved Cro-Magnon state.
Snark Free Corner for 2/4 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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The rest of them, the eight yellow states here, are all what we call toss-up states, true swing states where it could go one way or the other.
CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2008
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If everyone else did, each of you would find it a toss-up as to whether to spend twice as long queuing for a chance to brush hands over the stamps, or to get quick service from somebody less fanciable.
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It's a toss-up whether the Landmark Tavern or Keens Steakhouse is closer to the Javits Center, but both are within comfortable walking distance.
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It's a bit of a toss-up between DivX and Windows Media Video 9 on this one.
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He may be Sweden's most talented player, but it's a toss-up as to whether he'll be making the headlines for his on- or off-the-field behaviour.
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Many analysts consider the success of United's deal a toss-up, although Colak predicts defeat, based on congressional, UAL labor, and consumer opposition lining up against it.
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If I were to put China having one of their best days and the U.S. having one of their best days, I think that it would be a toss-up who would win.
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It's truly a toss-up, but we think the race may wind up like this.
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it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose
