Sentence examples for tossing about from inspiring English sources

On a floundering Mukhorty, Brekhunov travels in smaller circles across a hostile, almost alien landscape, coming twice to a clump of wormwood – "growing on a boundary … desperately tossing about under the pressure of the wind" – that appears to mark the grim border of existence.

The horses sweat, the coachman curses, and passers-by wonder, like the reader, what is occurring behind those blinds: "the good folk opened large wonder-stricken eyes at this sight, so extraordinary in the provinces, a cab with blinds drawn, and which appeared thus constantly shut more closely than a tomb, and tossing about like a vessel".

By David Lardner The New Yorker, July 10, 1943 P. 13 Gazing out of our apartment window the other day, we suddenly were aware of a stocking (apparantly whole and plainly of a filmy substance, though whether silk or nylon we couldn't be sure) tossing about on the lap of a brisk, westerly breeze, barely six feet from our startled eyes.

They were playfully tossing about the notion of a naked newswomen calendar: themselves along with DIANE SAWYER and CONNIE CHUNG.

Even Audrey Hepburn, recklessly tossing about that magnificent rope of pearls in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," could not dislodge them from the altar of good taste.

Unnerving thumps are heard from yet another box, which seems to be empty but yields the quintessential outsider, after a good deal of tossing about.

Tractor-trailers were tossed about.

Jeremy tossed about like an antsy boy.

Ageism, however, is possibly the one most often tossed about.

We are pitched and tossed about so wantonly.

The question was tossed about among the marines all day.