List of synonyms from "throw off" to synonyms from "thumbs up"


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Definition of the day : « throw oneself »

  • As in plunge : verb dive or fall fast
Example sentences :
  • But if one falls, that is no reason to throw oneself in the abyss.
  • Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
  • Or else one wants suddenly to throw oneself on the bear earth.
  • Extract from : « Jewish Children » by Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
  • I call it wicked—yes, downright wicked, and tempting Providence, to throw oneself into danger unnecessarily.
  • Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford
  • Is it not a sign of life and growth to throw oneself heart and soul into whatever pursuit may be immediately to one's hand?
  • Extract from : « Why we should read » by S. P. B. Mais
  • To think of written things at such a moment and throw oneself on them—it's like an insincerity of the heart.
  • Extract from : « "Persons Unknown" » by Virginia Tracy
  • When one hears the Aasgaardsreija coming, one must throw oneself on the ground and pretend that one sleeps.
  • Extract from : « Strife and Peace » by Fredrika Bremer
  • But for people with hearts there's nothing left but to hang a stone round one's neck and throw oneself into the river.
  • Extract from : « A Mummer's Tale » by Anatole France
  • That demoniacal impulse to throw oneself from a height took possession of me.
  • Extract from : « White Shadows in the South Seas » by Frederick O'Brien
  • In fact, I think of myself as little as possible; it's the only way to bear life, to throw oneself out of the personal.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II » by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • He has nobody left him, and when one gets to seventy the best is to throw oneself into the river.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola