Sentence examples for trained to throw from inspiring English sources

During the sessions, dozens of young Muslims were trained to throw imaginary grenades, to stage mock ambushes with rifles fashioned from branches and to chop watermelons in simulated beheadings.

In Siam, elephants were trained to throw the condemned into the air before trampling them to death.

He says current pitchers have not been trained to throw as many pitches, so they don't and they work less.

This may sound inhuman to Westerners raised on the well-padded sport of boxing, but it's a common strike in Muay Thai, a combat style known as the "art of the eight limbs" because fighters are trained to throw punches, kicks, elbows, and knees.

He brought me to Stirling to train, to throw every morning, to practise harder than I've ever done in my life and he's pushed me right to the edge.

"Our own colleagues are trained to never throw a parcel, and any allegation of this nature is treated very seriously and appropriate disciplinary action taken".

A binary "yes or no" option is much easier for viewers to commit to, especially in a world where we've been trained to nonchalantly throw likes around on Instagram and Facebook.

In World War I, battalion subunits were trained both to throw hand grenades and to fire rifle grenades.

"We were in Europe once and someone said in a clear voice, 'I didn't know they trained monkeys to throw darts.' It doesn't really bother me as such.

The tape box bore an instruction to leave "Her Majesty" off the final product, but the next day when mastering engineer Malcolm Davies received the tape, he (also trained not to throw anything away) cut a playback lacquer of the whole sequence, including "Her Majesty".

They can be thrown very long distances, so if you train yourself to throw them well, you can use them to blow up snipers from far away.