Examples of flung

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He did not fear his own death, but that of others flung the transience of the world hard into his face.
Unfortunately, the reader's confidence in the reliability of the far-flung data may be shaken by the palpable errors that crop up closer to home.
The art itself is so rich and diverse, in all its far-flung idioms.
The record, even of the collection of wider-flung correspondence, is in itself a fascinating topic, and is full of the most piquant surprises.
I guess by instinct she kind of yelped and flung her arm out, missing my eye with her bracelet by like an inch.
In the first place, reformers had to coordinate their efforts across forty-eight far-flung states, each with different political and social characteristics.
The uniformity of the sound field is further enhanced by the reflections from the ceiling to far-flung seats.
Their carcasses would then be flung into a dried-up riverbed.
To follow the global reception of popular music ethnographically, music's far-flung interpretive practices must remain in the same frame as local historical narratives.
In these situations, "the juvenile did not catch the flung prey, but held on to the sea lion it had caught itself ".
The chaebol were pressured to sell off their far-flung non-core businesses, and to use the proceeds to reduce their debt-equity ratios.
The dancers appear to whirl energetically about with their hands on their hips, flung wildly out into the air, or waving high above their heads.
We also recommend the consolidation of authority over the now far-flung entities constituting the intelligence community.
The companies had some difficulty managing their far-flung assets.
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