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The phrase "throw himself from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever the intent is to express that someone is physically removing themselves from a situation by propelling their body away. For example, "In a moment of despair, John threw himself from the roof of the building."
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And when I asked what she thought might have made him throw himself from that seventh floor window in New York, Gladys said simply: "It was his work".
Clutching a bottle of Jack Daniels, he had threatened to throw himself from a hotel window, she said, before being subdued by friends.
(If a man has a structure made out of coated cloth 12 arms wide and 12 tall, he will be able to throw himself from any great height without hurting himself).
[Another time] he was put in a car and he had to throw himself from it [to survive]." Then at 12.20am on 25 July, he got a call from a Syrian who had recently arrived in Istanbul.
The lawsuit describes him as "a clearly disturbed individual," and alleges he once tried to throw himself from his fifth-floor window.
(via) This guy's trying to throw himself from the 13th floor of a very high building because his girlfriend broke up with him.
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"And I realized, Oh, my God — he threw himself from an upper window.
On Monday, a 51-year-old employee threw himself from a highway bridge.
After severe torture he apparently threw himself from his prison window to avoid revealing the crucial information that he possessed.
The following month, a man who lived in Isaacs Houses threw himself from a 19th-floor window.
That same month, his partner since 1953, John Gaskin, threw himself from a sixth-floor balcony but survived.
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