Sentence examples for was thrown when from inspiring English sources

Many a first pitch was thrown when the thermometer was pushing 100.

The grenade was thrown when City went ahead, after Aguero had rounded off a superb move that involved Samir Nasri and a defence-splitting pass from Yaya Touré.

"That way when the guy hits your glove, the umpire thinks it's where your glove was before the pitch was thrown," when in actuality the glove had moved, Stewart said.

The first dose of bad news arrived before the first pitch was thrown, when Major League Baseball announced that Chamberlain had been suspended for throwing two fastballs over the head of Boston's Kevin Youkilis on Thursday.

And a postscript: I had read Liebling's "Quest for Mollie" (there are two parts; the first is more of a prelude) in an anthology of New Yorker pieces from the Second World War, and I was thrown, when I looked it up this morning, to see the cover of the actual issue it was in.

And it ended up being a room where everything was thrown when it was broken or had outlived its usefulness.

If Igawa was throwing when the Yankees didn't know it, he wasn't doing it to be a contrarian.

The ball has barely been thrown when Conde makes his excuses and leaves.

"It's like a rope you've been thrown when you're drowning, that's made just for you," one patient said.

"I'm used to various slings and arrows being thrown when I'm writing about capitalism," Patel told me after the lecture.

There's no English word for the frenzied state into which I'm thrown when I see a tree thick with crab apples, or greengages, or pears.