6 sentences with 'thrown'
Example sentences and phrases with the word thrown and other words derived from it.
• « The van was thrown off to the right, crossed two lanes, hit the side lawn, somersaulted several times, and finally landed in a sea of glass shards. »
• « Thousands of papyrus documents have been discovered that were simply thrown into holes in the desert and left there; the sand and the climate conspired to preserve them. »
• « In the legend of Romulus and Remus, two children were born to a Latin king, but were later kidnapped and thrown into the river Tiber by the king's jealous brother. »
• « In a symbolic parallel, the Committee also had the bodies of the dead French kings dug up and thrown into a mass grave (the corpse of Louis XIV fell over that of his grandfather, Henri IV). »
• « Countries such as Iraq, Transjordan and the Nadj (the forerunner of today's Saudi Arabia) were simply invented by British politicians, often with compliant Arab leaders thrown onto newly invented thrones in the process. »