Sentence examples for took a fling from inspiring English sources

While teaching at Harvard in the 1970's, he took a fling at painting himself: he rented a loft downtown but gave up after a year and went back to landscape architecture, first in Boston, then on the West Coast.

About 75,000 youngsters take a fling at truancy during a school year.

He had no plans for the future probably would have to sell the house in a few months and then take a fling at love in a garret.

Her father put down the knife, backed four feet away from his daughter, and shouted "Velcro!" She gave a gleeful laugh, flung out her arms, took a flying leap, and landed in her father's arms.

Consider a fling or "rebound".

Or the cat who takes a flying jump shot out of a laundry hamper at the clothes his owner flings at the wall above the hamper.

Mewelde Moore took a handoff and was flung to the snowy turf in the end zone by Jets linebacker Jason Taylor.

Ordinarily, anyone in Columbus who wants to take a serious fling at haute cuisine goes to Cincinnati.

Scotland is already taking a highland fling toward independence.

It was late at night, she'd been drinking, and although he was calm to begin with, after she started flinging crockery--after she took a kitchen knife to the bedsheets and slashed them to ribbons--he lost his temper and slapped her hard.

When Young took a corner too fast, the children slipped from the trunk and were flung into the road.