Sentence examples for be thrown for from inspiring English sources

Everything could be thrown for strikes".

(Roughly every 90 seconds, a double needs to be thrown for some kind of finish).

So when the No. 6 train skips five stations or the D train runs along N train tracks, thousands upon thousands of people may be thrown for a loop.

At 10, the public would be ushered out, and a private party was to be thrown for Mr. Morellet's staff members and old friends, many of whom had flown in for the last hurrah.

Indeed, advertisers who assume they will corral customers with a highfalutin campaign could be thrown for a loss.

Guitars rather than synths are up front, and although Foster the People still graces its tunes with friendly electro-pop beats, now a track is more likely to be thrown for a loop with disarming banshee howls — or samples of monkeys.

"It felt like a party that was thrown for me".

That dice was thrown for us by the voters.

"Dinners were thrown for us hither and yon," recalls Bowles.

He was thrown for a loss on fourth down.

Molotov cocktails were thrown for the first time on mainland Britain.