Sentence examples for being thrown about a from inspiring English sources

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"I've just spent the day being thrown about a lot".

I, in turn, have just spent the day being thrown about a lot, too, albeit in a metaphorical way.

He was knighted for his exploits, undertaken in a 32-foot ketch-rigged, double-ended yacht called "Suhaili". Recounting the experience in a 1969 memoir, "A World of My Own," he included excerpts from journal entries made at sea. "Ennui has set in with a vengeance; part of this is due to the fact that we are being thrown about a great deal and I cannot hold much steady," he wrote.

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There is, however, a lot of stylised gore as buckets of blood are thrown about, a crocodile – the Renaissance emblem of deceit – is disembowelled, and a dead giraffe has its tongue ripped out.

During several songs, Mira Aroyo and Helen Marnie's vocals are feedback-tinged or plain inaudible, while oblique consumerism critique Paco and Another Breakfast With You sound not just harsh, but like spanners being thrown about in an empty gasometer.

Also being thrown about is the advanced compact F60fd.

Often larger than life, these images erupt or glide across screens, are thrown about by a big revolving mirror or drift through layers of rippling veils.

The Highpoint Estate residents and their problems were thrown about like a hand-grenade with the pin removed, and then lobbed into the long grass – where they have remained ever since.

"I felt strong shaking at first, then I was thrown about like I was in a washing machine," said a Tokai University student who remains isolated in the village of Minamiaso.

"I felt strong shaking at first, then I was thrown about like I was in a washing machine," said a Tokai University student who remains isolated in the village of Minamiaso in Kumamoto province on the island of Kyushu.

"Crew members were thrown about and bruised".

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