Sentence examples for were tossed down from inspiring English sources

It is a giant, disorienting complex from the ground it seems as though the buildings were tossed down arbitrarily, like dice, or boxes.

IN George Orwell's "1984," documents deemed embarrassing to the State were tossed down a memory hole, a disposal chute in the Ministry of Truth that led to enormous furnaces.

They'll be advised whether they've made a medal winner or one that should be tossed down the drain.

Sanchez was upbeat afterward and said he was generally pleased with how he played, praising Ansah for his athleticism on a play that deteriorated when the intended receiver, Tommy Bohanon, was tossed down at the line of scrimmage.

"Kinetic energy weapons" are the subject of a study included in Air Force 2025, with one application being rods, or "flechettes," designed to be tossed down to earth from space.

Scientists at the lab have studied the bird flu and other diseases so deadly that carcasses and are tossed down a drain "into an intense pressure cooker" so that they are instantly denatured and any virus is killed "before it goes anywhere," Meter said.

Truly, this is the sound of a gauntlet being tossed down with the words, "Come on, Beady Eye, top this one for shitness!" Aw, Diana Vickers; "little Diana from Bolton"; she had the world at her (bare) feet until she chose to do Dido that week on X Factor.

We even get a shot from within her grave, watching and hearing the earth being tossed down by mourners; it is a fright worthy of Poe, although he might have fainted at what follows — a straight cut to the living Véronique, nearing orgasm in the arms of a lover.

And when that happens, millennia of mental refinements are tossed down the stairwell.

After a bit of negotiation with Khan Nasrullah, Conolly was tossed down with Stoddart.

Why Pennsylvania?" I could hear the thud of a gauntlet being tossed down when the words "why Pennsylvania?" were uttered.