Sentence examples for upon throwing from inspiring English sources

Upon throwing acey-deucey, the player first moves a piece the three spaces to which he is entitled.

She helps her mother-in-law, Ruth, dispose of the grandmother's possessions, wondering why Ruth is intent upon throwing everything away.

A moment later, already upset, I came upon Jimmy and Rick throwing the little pinecones at one another.

One day he and two friends, Chrisann Brennan (Ahna O'Reilly and Daniel Kottkee (Lukas Haas), go on a lysergically enhanced picnic that culminates with Steve drifting into a field and, as the camera twirls around him and the sun shines upon him, throwing his arms open to the infinite.

I'd call upon writers throwing around the term "postfeminst" to be a little more specific.

For centuries I swam in the air above your ancestors, wishing ill upon them, throwing my wind into their veins and causing them discomfort.

Soon, predictably, the mood soured; the protesters unleashed a ferocious attack upon the parade, throwing fists, chairs, whatever came to hand.

In his celebrated Farewell Address, Mr. Hormats noted, George Washington warned against "ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burdens we ourselves ought to bear".

We must, he says, guard against "ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear".

In her movies, Hutton was mostly called upon to throw herself about in numbers like Murder He Says (in Happy Go Lucky, 1943).

Wilhelm was a few months shy of his thirtieth birthday when he was finally called upon to throw his first big-league pitch, for the New York Giants, in 1952.