Sentence examples for attempting to throw a from inspiring English sources

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A video of Krstic, who plays for Serbia, attempting to throw a chair at center Sofoklis Schortsanitis of Greece became a sensation on the Internet on Friday.

Mustafa finally surrendered himself from the aircraft to counter-terrorism police, his hands in the air, after attempting to throw a letter to his ex-wife from the plane.

Four nail bombs found in Donaghey's pockets were not planted after his death, Saville concludes, but he adds: "We are sure that Gerald Donaghey was not preparing or attempting to throw a nail bomb when he was shot; and we are equally sure that he was not shot because of his possession of nail bombs.

Maybe the most inexplicable moment came when Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Jameis Winston, on the 21 yard line with just seven seconds left on the clock, made the decision to run with the ball rather than attempting to throw a game-winning touchdown.

The medal citation reported that Cova had organized a counter-attack and was killed attempting to throw a hand-held bomb at a British tank.

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He said a man hit him with rock after he tackled a protester who was attempting to throw an aluminum chair at a police officer.

On New Year's Eve, I fell down a flight of stairs; last week, I elbowed my boyfriend forcefully in the eye while attempting to throw an affectionate arm around him.

The opening of the film depicts Kyle killing a pubescent boy and his mother as they attempt to throw a grenade at American marines.

With 1 minute 40 seconds left, McNabb attempted to throw a deep square-out to wide receiver Torrance Small along the right sideline.

Such reticence has come home to roost: unprecedented levels of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks have been launched using NTP in recent days and months.A DoS attack attempts to throw a massive flood of traffic that either crashes servers on the receiving end (by overloading them) or drowns out legitimate queries.

Things really are dire when Burger King's social media manager thinks: "Hmm, how can we turn this rapper's public pummelling into a Twitter punchline that facilitates the sale of our product?" In a genre where authenticity has always been king, Meek attempted to throw a hefty jab at Drake – and missed.

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