Sentence examples for threw it off from inspiring English sources

'threw it off' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe tossing or discarding something, either physically or figuratively. Example: She threw off her jacket and ran out into the rain.

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Feminists in the 1920s threw it off; by the 1970s so had most Egyptian women.

If I'd missed the pot normally then fair play but the kick threw it off line.

He also dropped a concrete block on it, threw it off a roof, and doused it with lighter fluid and ignited it.

Kidd grabbed the ball, threw it off the backboard, and the pass hit the trailing Richard Jefferson at an awkward angle.

I called Ferry (full disclosure: once, after a few drinks, I grabbed a P.G. Wodehouse book out of his hands and threw it off a balcony) and asked him how he felt about his being an impetus for fall men's wear.

The banana at Atalanta landed near Milan's Guinean defender Kevin Constant who picked it up and showed it to the referee before team-mate Nigel de Jong threw it off the pitch.

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An urban myth in the West held that millions of Chinese had only to jump simultaneously in order to shake the world and throw it off its axis.

To keep investors happy, Nagarjuna must make sure its breakneck growth doesn't throw it off stride.

One word can throw it off.

I couldn't throw it off.

"But changing the colors, you throw it off.

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