Sentence examples for nearly tossed from inspiring English sources
It is inconceivable that an Irish team ever enjoyed so much territory and possession in Paris and yet they so nearly tossed it all on a bonfire of debilitating inaccuracies and unresolved bluntness.
She nearly tossed him out the kitchen door before remembering that only weeks before in Sichuan, she had munched her way through a menu of timber grubs, bee pupae and sand-crawling caterpillars.
The scenes in the Yankees and Red Soxx' clubhouses yesterday were so disparate that an uninformed visitor would have guessed that Cone, not Mussina, had nearly tossed a perfect game six days ago.
The letter that inspired Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" before being (allegedly) dropped off a houseboat, misfiled at a small Bay Area publisher, nearly tossed out with the trash, and then fought over by two literary estates has now reached its seemingly final destination.
The breast cancer roller coaster ride to "survivorship" for more than a decade has been a bumpy trip, at times nearly tossing me from the coaster car, but thankfully the protective safety harness of my health-care team, intensive treatment, post cancer surveillance and my little white pill has kept my cancer from recurring.
In fact, he says, the brains nearly got tossed in the trash for lack of interest — until someone had the "good sense" to move them to the basement of the medical school's Harkness dormitory in 1979.
If the slam dunk is all power, the teardrop is all finesse, a dandelion fluff of a shot that is nearly always tossed up by the smallest player on the floor.
(I nearly got tossed from the place because one of Serco's employees saw I had scribbled "Fiji suicide" in my notes).
I've seen people nearly get tossed out a window and often people just getting tossed (however you want to the think of the word tossed is right in this sense).
They told me how the bass had pinned schools of young-of-the-year spearing against the shoreline, gulping them down by the dozen and swiping at nearly any lure tossed their way.
Several vehicles were picked up and tossed nearly 0.25 mile.
