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Definition of toss in English: tossverb tɒs 1with object and adverbial of direction Throw (something) somewhere lightly or casually. Suzy tossed her bag on to the sofa with two objects she tossed me a box of matches Example sentencesExamples - Upon our arrival, several large men unloaded the car and casually tossed the old machines into the growing pile pictured below.
- She glanced sideways at Nadeline, who nodded and took out the bag, tossing it casually on the table, the sound of coins echoing through the pub.
- But, you don't have to go far before you see someone casually toss a sweet wrapper or half-eaten lolly onto the ground.
- Jonnie shuts the phone and casually tosses it onto the dresser.
- After turning the pillow 45 degrees and back again, she might have tossed it casually on the sofa.
- She flashed another smile as she casually tossed the towel back to him, taking another sip of her drink.
- The doctor slumps back in his chair, and casually tosses his glasses onto the paper-stacked desk.
- Inevitably my stepfather would pull a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out of a brown paper bag and toss it onto the counter.
- Please enjoy how Bill just casually tosses a floppy disc in the air.
- Reaching into his own lunch bag, he lightly tossed a satsuma her way.
- He casually tossed a knife into the air, and it was that motion that caught Kim's attention.
- He turned around and saw me standing about fifteen feet away from him, tossing a rock casually.
- Nodding firmly, Junko casually tossed the dress back into the box and followed her uncle into the kitchen.
- I reached home and casually tossed the baggie onto a table.
- I shrugged, tossed the shuttle casually to my right, and smacked it anywhere over the net.
- Three middle-aged men hold their fags in their mouths as they casually toss their plastic chips on to the numbered grid at their fingertips.
- ‘I'll pack your stuff,’ Kit said, while tossing her bag lightly onto the bed from the desk.
- Mac tossed his duffel bag onto one of the two beds in their rented room, then glanced around.
- I rolled my eyes, zipped up my bag, and tossed it onto my bed, pacing around the room as I thought further.
- He pulled out a soccer jersey and casually tossed it to Jason.
Synonyms throw, hurl, cast, fling, sling, pitch, shy, lob, propel, launch, project, send, dash, bowl informal heave, chuck, bung - 1.1with object (of a horse) throw (a rider) off its back.
Example sentencesExamples - Zimmerman was tossed to the ground and was hit slightly by a passing horse when he attempted to get to the inside rail.
- My three year old stud colt had tossed me right in the middle of the arena.
- Diving into the nearby meadow, she could do nothing but glance up in horror as the horse reared and tossed its rider onto a grassy patch beside her.
- 1.2with object Throw (a coin) into the air in order to make a decision between two alternatives, based on which side of the coin faces uppermost when it lands.
we could just toss a coin no object he tossed up between courgettes and tomatoes and courgettes won Example sentencesExamples - With a probability of 51%, a coin will land on the same side that it was tossed from.
- Imagine tossing a coin until it lands heads-up, and suppose that the payoff grows exponentially according to the number of tosses you make.
- I tossed up calling Katelyn and telling her, but I figured that we probably weren't meant to know.
- If you were a quantum mechanic tossing a coin, it would land on the table, but no particular side would be facing up until you looked at it.
- Burnett and Skyner milked the applause, shook hands, sent over a few practice swings and tossed up for who was going first.
- A coin will be tossed to determine who will make the first opening statement.
- I wondered how many of them had been granted, and momentarily debated whether or not tossing in a coin would help my situation.
- It was a try - I never put my foot in touch - but the linesman was tossing the coin for decisions all game so I didn't know what he'd say.
- I have juggled with the report's contents, even tossing up a coin to see if Sean was serious or had a good old belly laugh as he wrote it.
- For example, after tossing a coin many times, it will land ‘heads up’ nine times in a row.
- Archie is an indecisive Englishman who can only make a decision after tossing a coin.
- 1.3with object Settle a matter with (someone) by tossing a coin.
2Move or cause to move from side to side or back and forth. no object the trees tossed in the wind with object the yachts were tossed around like toys in the harbour tempest-tossed and shipwrecked mariners Example sentencesExamples - I could not get to sleep last night, I just tossed and turned until I finally did fall asleep at about 6: 30AM.
- I could tell his leg was broken by the way it didn't move with the rest of him as he tossed and turned, I could tell it was hurting just to do so.
- He had tossed and turned, wondering what he should do with Angela.
- Natasha groaned to herself as she tossed and turned on her bed.
- So he tossed and turned, pretending to awaken, then feigned surprise at seeing the lady of the castle upon opening his eyes.
- Shrugging, she tossed and turned for awhile, willing herself back to sleep, finally, she managed to drop off.
- Others tossed and turned to catch the elusive sleep.
- We tossed and turned, followed by long embracement like we've been longing for each other throughout our whole lives.
- I tossed and turned last night, waking every 2 hours hoping that it was morning, praying that it wasn't.
- Night after night I tossed and turned, racking my brain.
- I tossed and turned, not due to any specific problem, but in retrospect, I realize I was worried about him going to school.
- She tossed and turned in bed and finally gave up, getting out of bed to check her email, and a possible update from either Noelle or Jean.
- All that night, the Princess tossed and turned.
- Sakazawa was tossed and shaken as the ship bore the brunt of the attack.
- I tossed and turned all night, tired but unable to sleep.
- She tossed and turned before eventually falling asleep.
- As for the solicitous spouse… they probably started the day complaining bitterly about the patient having tossed and turned all night long.
- Jane tossed and turned for thirty so minutes, not able to find the right position, and unable to settle because of the thunder storm.
- Sierra tossed and turned, begging for sleep that refused to come.
- Instead I tossed and turned for virtually the whole night.
- Christopher tossed and turned throughout the evening, dreaming and waking and starting the cycle over again.
Synonyms flail, thrash about, roll, tumble jerk, twitch, wriggle, writhe, squirm lurch, reel, list, keel, veer, labour, flounder, plunge, rock, roll, sway, undulate, pitch, heave, wallow, make heavy weather Nautical pitchpole - 2.1with object Jerk (one's head or hair) sharply backwards.
Paula pursed her lips and tossed her head she stood up, tossing her hair out of her eyes Example sentencesExamples - She stared at him flatly, tossing her head to get her hair out of her eyes.
- Nicole voiced in confusion, her newly blonde-streaked brown hair swishing as she tossed her head up to look at us.
- The dragon stood slightly, tossing its head upwards as though craving to take off into the sky.
- My mother's bobbed hair blew into her face, and she tossed her head to make it fly back in place.
- The light breeze caught her hair and sent it flying backwards as she tossed her head.
- Her lip trembled and she tossed her head, but she didn't answer, which was probably the best response she could have made.
- She tossed her long hair backwards and gallantly stood awaiting my reaction.
- She tosses her head to flip her hair out of her eyes.
- But she inhaled sharply, bit down hard on her lower lip, and tossed her hair.
- He nodded sharply, inadvertently tossing hair into his face.
- The black horses tossed their heads and whinnied loudly, stamping the ground and flicking their tails restlessly.
- Ivy stood up with her curvy hour glass figure and tossed her long blonde hair.
- The golden horse tossed his head, long cream colored mane whipping, and whinnied shrilly.
- Andy twisted her lips in a wry smile and tossed her dyed black hair over her shoulder.
- Kish turned sharply enough to toss his hair behind his pointed ear.
- She was just exiting the bathroom as she tossed her hair backwards.
- Morgan's lips twisted and he tossed his sandy brown hair out of his face.
- I leaned over the windowsill, tossing my beautiful head of hair, giggling madly at something my best friend Eira had said.
- I moved my mare into a canter, and the second horse tossed its head and whinnied in irritation at the feel of Gyric's weight against its neck.
- Surprised, the dragons sprang backwards, snorting and tossing their heads.
- 2.2with object Shake or turn (food) in a liquid, so as to coat it lightly.
toss the pasta in the sauce Example sentencesExamples - Tony was first, taking the order from the cashier, getting the dough, tossing the pizza, and passing it to Antonia, Tony's sister.
- Drizzle dressing over chicken mixture, tossing to coat salad ingredients evenly.
- Shake skillet, tossing beans to coat with oil, garlic, and breadcrumbs.
- Transfer the meat into a casserole, then quickly toss the onions and carrots in the fat.
- Add the butter and cheese in three equal stages, tossing the pasta each time until it is evenly coated with the mixture.
- There's usually macaroni salad, but you toss tuna in that and everyone is happy.
- Later, the girls all sat down for a rather light meal consisting of chicken, curry, tossed salad, and baked potatoes.
- Drain octopus, place in a mixing bowl and pour over enough dressing until the octopus is just coated; toss lightly.
- Add in the buckwheat, the vegetables and the pain d' épice, and toss lightly to coat, making sure the ingredients are nicely blended.
- After tossing the gray uniform coat on the back of the open trunk, he lit a cigar.
- Slowly sautéed pearl onions are tossed with walnuts, splashed with fig vinegar, and showered with snipped fresh savory.
- Try tossing kidney beans into salads, soups, stews or stir-fries.
- Add the pasta, tossing lightly to combine well to coat, along with a few spoonfuls of the pasta water if dry.
- Drain off any liquid, then toss with 2 tablespoons lemon juice and set aside.
- I just cook the sauce in a wide frying pan, toss the freshly cooked gnocchi into it and then serve it from the pan.
- The traditional way is to lift out the meat and set it aside, while the sauce is tossed with pasta and served topped with grated Parmesan.
- Sit at the ceviche bar and watch the chefs toss tuna with white soy sauce, citrus, and cilantro, or shrimp with roasted tomatoes and avocado slices.
- Pour over cereal mix, toss lightly to coat evenly.
- Transfer to a large, lidded flame-proof casserole, and lightly toss the onions and carrots in the fat.
- Tip the mussels and their juices into the frying pan, tossing well to coat.
Synonyms shake, stir, turn, churn, mix, combine
3North American informal with object Search (a place) I could demand her keys and toss her office
noun tɒs 1An act or instance of tossing something. a defiant toss of her head Example sentencesExamples - There'd be some coin tosses made, and probably even some arguments.
- Consider a statistician, sitting down to construct a table for his new textbook, which will show a normal distribution of heads and tails over a series of one-hundred coin tosses.
- The situation is analogous to trying to estimate the bias of two unfair coins from a series of tosses.
- The reason is that H and T represent heads and tails in a sequence of coin tosses.
- And Telicia, a lefty, got two of her three tosses through a moving hoop in that event.
- Such a graph reveals that for the spins and velocities typically encountered in coin tosses, tiny changes in initial conditions make the difference between heads and tails.
- Come on, this whodunit tale is quite engrossing with its frequent tosses, turns and twists.
- He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
- Consider a person who is betting on coin tosses and the prior outcomes were Heads, Tails, Tails, Heads, Heads, Heads.
- This sequence of coin tosses will not, however, trigger a design inference.
- He was probably sitting upright in bed, his untidy brown hair, that I teased never had seen a hair brush before, in a horrifying mess, from all the tosses and turns he made in his sleep.
- Participants were told either that they would be betting on two blocks of six coin tosses, or on two blocks of seven.
- The players in the group then establish a playing order - one through four in a foursome - by calling coin tosses, chipping toward a tee marker or any other simple method.
- He was not saying that the probability of getting just one head from ten coin tosses is the same as that of getting five heads.
- I love coin tosses and am thinking about starting a website dedicated solely to documenting each and every coin toss result from each and every sporting event in the history of the world.
- The palm of my hand brushed up against hers; causing a spark of emotions through my arm, paining my stomach with tosses and turns.
- Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes.
- The situation with share selection strategies and investment funds is more complicated than coin tosses because there are so many different factors at work.
- I quickly scooped him up and dropped him into his tank of pure spring water so he didn't dry out but I didn't see this lasting long unless he started to win the home-turf advantage coin tosses.
Synonyms jerk, jolt, throw cast, fling, hurl, heave, delivery, lob - 1.1the toss The action of tossing a coin as a method of deciding which team has the right to make a particular decision at the beginning of a game.
Somerset won the toss and chose to bat Example sentencesExamples - In the last 20 Tests at Bridgetown the team winning the toss has elected to bat only three times.
- True, a people's referendum would need careful design to ensure people do not have to vote every week, and that they vote on meaningful questions, not blind tosses between bitter and acid.
- While we played five and lost five in that competition, I think that's a misleading stat because we lost all five tosses, which were crucial, yet were only 30 runs adrift in almost all of the games.
- Winning the toss isn't such a blessing here - in nine games, the team losing the toss has won on seven occasions, including the last five ODIs.
- Her team won the toss, and picked the side they wanted to defend, while the Northern Appleton Wildcats got the kickoff.
- I think the team that wins the coin toss wins the game about 75% of the time.
- Stourbridge after winning the toss surprisingly chose to play against the wind, but proceeded to score twenty points.
- In the first game Kilkenny won the toss, served first and made an ace on the serve to lead one nil.
- Scotland had won the toss and chosen to play with the wind, which made the fact that they trailed 22-12 by half-time all the more ominous.
- They won the toss and chose bravely to bat first.
- After winning the toss and deciding to bat, Brothers were struggling at 3-24 when Matthews walked to the crease.
- Cambridge won the toss and predictably chose Middlesex.
- Nalanda winning the toss made a wise decision to give first lease of the wicket to Ananda who were reeling at two wickets for four runs in the fifth over of the match.
- It goes without saying any team which wins the toss will choose to bat.
- In six completed matches in the series also involving England, the team winning the toss have gone on to win each match with reasonable ease.
- The away team won the toss and decided to play against the breeze in the first half.
- Seven overs were lost in a late start because of rain and Preston's automatic decision on winning the toss to bat in less than ideal conditions was questionable.
- In three of them, the team winning the toss won the games.
- Bulgaria won the quarter-final over Israel in Soccer at the 1968 Mexico Olympics in which the deciding factor was the toss of the coin.
- John won the toss of a coin to present the first program, but this soon gave way to a single compère a year later.
Phrases informal usually with negativeCare at all. I don't give a toss what you think Example sentencesExamples - Roll on an elected second chamber, and meanwhile, God preserve us from politicians who think they have to impress us with their love and knowledge of football, when really they couldn't give a toss.
- But while there were some people who would cheerfully have thrown me into the sea, there were others who didn't give a toss about the colour of my skin and a few who would have defended me with their lives.
- Not that Lewisham council appears to give a toss about Catford, mind…
- In the end I reached that nirvana level of not giving a toss who I asked to dance, and there were some truly lovely dancers there.
- She doesn't care about being out of the job market and couldn't give a toss about being ‘out of the loop’ or ‘pushed sideways’ at work.
- Nobody in London gives a toss about Olympic football because we don't take part but, believe us, we'll pretend to have a passion for beach volleyball, taekwondo and badminton if it helps.
- The one absolute certainty is that nobody south of Gretna gives a toss what any of these people think.
- I know that the workers from City Contract Services do their best to keep the roads and streets clean but a certain minority make it impossible because, quite simply, they don't give a toss for the environment of other people.
- Who gives a toss about productivity, which simply makes others rich?
- This is, of course, because the council stopped giving a toss at some point in the 1980s, and the place has teetered on the brink of closure ever since.
- I consider myself a fully paid-up member of generation X: despite enjoying current affairs, I couldn't give a toss about individual politics.
- Again, is it any wonder why hardly anyone gives a toss about politicians?
- For the first time, women are now edging towards the possibility of not giving a toss how popular a moisturiser might be, and of leading lives which have neither time nor need for cuticle remover.
- Their decision not to link to that news is their decision and no-one gives a toss really.
- But then, who gives a toss for outmoded aesthetics these days, eh?
- Otherwise why should I give a toss whether all your shows end up on ITV?
- ‘I could not give a toss what people think of me,’ he says.
- You think he, or the club, gives a toss what you want?
- But then, the striker departed from Glasgow as he arrived: not giving a toss.
- Even as a student of Politics, I simply do not see how these two sagas could have turned out any differently (given the nature of politics in this country) so found it difficult to give a toss, quite frankly.
I took a heavy toss when my horse fell Example sentencesExamples - Not knowing how to negotiate the lip of the dune, I took a toss and landed in the soft sand.
- Well, on the occasion referred to, Angela had just regained her board after taking a toss, when a great beastly shark came along and cannoned into it, flinging her into the salty once more.
- And I remember him taking a toss, which would have killed any ordinary man, when riding after a pig at the Stud Farm at Saharunpur.
- The recent showers that lashed the city saw several bike riders taking a toss and four-wheelers skidding out of control.
Example sentencesExamples - The girl, who had never tossed her cookies after seeing the corpses, even the first time, couldn't hold her liquor.
- I also ate a vegetarian wrap in my room since eating near Brandy makes me want to toss my cookies.
- So we ended up going to this Chinese restaurant, and to cut a long story short, I wasn't even able to manage to take three mouthfuls before running to the ladies room and tossing my cookies.
- Not only was he covered with goosebumps, he was trying not to toss his cookies.
- And its better now that they hook me up so I can't go toss my cookies’ Jessie smirked, and Niki felt very uncomfortable.
- No, it was your favorite ‘Still Desperately Clinging to My Youth’ singer that made me want to toss my cookies.
- Now, before all the high-mindedness makes us toss our cookies, we might consider how easy it is for the very rich to take such an apparently noble position on social responsibility.
- Right now I'm thinking of an effect in ‘On Sabbath Hill’ that may make you toss your cookies.
- We spoke to the only other person who was close enough to observe, and not in the process of tossing his cookies, and he's ready to swear that no one else handed the hat to Pogey.
- She looked fine on the outside, but on the inside she was trying to keep from ‘tossing her cookies.’
- Needless to say, I stopped the car, pulled over and tossed my cookies.
- A reporter for one of the eleven o'clock news remote teams tossed her cookies in the van before doing a stand-up, white-faced and shaky, beside the blood-stained chalk outline of the body.
- A lot of guys come in here and toss their cookies.
- Things probably went on in those kitchens that'd have one tossing his cookies in the back alley.
- Usually when you hear a record by a new band that cops the style of someone from the past so blatantly, you're ready to toss your cookies.
- People might want to see you drunk and having a good time but nobody wants to see you tossing your cookies into the potted plant in the corner.
- When a number of us landlubbers became quite seasick, Victor decided it would be funny to capture the experience on film and began taking photos of his employees tossing their cookies overboard.
- He's still bitter about Papa Shango making him toss his cookies.
- Just try not to toss your cookies this time. - Go to the local hockey arena, find the pile of cleared ice out back deposited by the Zamboni and have a snowball fight in your bathing suits.
- He was a natural at teasing Cody and bouncing his little brother around up to the point where Kayla wondered if the little boy was going to toss his cookies all over Landon.
Synonyms be sick, spew, spew up, fetch up
informal Finish or give up. by the end of my first year I was ready to toss it in Example sentencesExamples - Just a few days ago, I was ready to toss it in.
- You want to toss it in, but this is a job, and there's the missus and kids to think of.
- A vehicle was waiting right there for riders like me who were ready to toss it in.
- We could all stay behind and work the ranch, but most families are ready to toss it in for lack of hands.
- The struggle to eke out a living in the mountains seemed to be so great for them that they were willing to toss it in at the first chance.
- I was ready to toss it in when a terrified scream shattered the night's quiet.
- Three weeks later I'd got a job at a pub, but was seriously considering tossing it in and heading home to New Zealand.
- It may well be there is no tougher Australian athlete, and yet she admits there were times she almost tossed it in.
- This legislation could see that person having to spend thousands of dollars on equipment, and that might be just enough to tip the balance between that person having a viable business and tossing it in.
- Does your family ask, "Hey, when are you going to toss it in, one more jump and that's it?"
Turn a pancake by flipping it into the air so that it lands in the pan on its opposite side. Example sentencesExamples - A number of North-west teams - including Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers and Oldham Athletic - entered the contest to race across a 200 metre course tossing a pancake as they ran.
- ‘Hello? ‘he snaps as Coco's strong rippling arm tosses a pancake into the air.’
- l Pupils at St Mary's Primary School also celebrated Shrove Tuesday in traditional style, negotiating an obstacle course while tossing a pancake.
- Any excuse for a party, so long as I don't have to toss a pancake or kiss a church bell ringer.
- The students had to toss a pancake, run to a hoop, toss a pancake a second time and run back to pass on the pan (hopefully with the pancake in!
Phrasal Verbs 1Produce something rapidly or without thought or effort. some of the best letters are tossed off in a burst of inspiration Example sentencesExamples - I find it kinda funny that when I feel at my worst and post, no one seems to say anything, but when I toss something off in a mini-haze combination of tired and mildly down, everyone's there.
- How often I've thought this - even tossed it off in conversation.
- Students immediately started tossing ideas off the tops of their heads.
- For Universal to toss it off like another second-hand series ripe for a digital dollar draw is spiteful, to both fans and the inquisitive alike.
- Sam rushes about in a mad frenzy of excitement, tossing off ideas and phrases, blind to the practicalities of life.
- Instead, take a look at this little number I tossed off while waiting for a train…
- OK, I'll admit it, I posted this a couple of months ago as a quick something I tossed off one afternoon.
- Instead he reveals a non-smoking, non-drinking grafter who pretended to toss off plays and movie scripts in an afternoon but actually spent night after night at home writing.
- He made a few comments, tossing them off casually, but they all struck home.
- I tried to warn her about it, but she tossed them off with an offhand comment about how she told her mother that she wasn't ready for marriage yet.
- In the ubiquitous Rachmaninov Prelude in G-sharp he makes no attempt to compete with the fingerpower of Russian masters, but tosses the piece off with near casual panache.
- Only thing that vaguely weirds me out is why you're writing this one to me instead of just tossing it off to your friends as a funny Sex and the City anecdote.
- Tactically, especially if you are going to do this in some way that she'll have to acknowledge that you've made the point (in other words, not ignore or toss off as a joke), I think you have to be prepared for some major blowback.
- The songs - the best they have written since Some Girls in '78-sound as if they were tossed off, like rock 'n' roll is supposed to.
- How often do we just toss off, ‘Hey thanks, you look great too!’
- You seem to have tossed it off fairly lightly, Mr O'Sullivan.
- Chelsea tosses the words off casually, fully expecting yet another shocked response to this announcement.
- Yet his plot devices are so slapdash, and key developments are tossed off so perfunctorily, that it seems the author didn't even have the time to write us a good bad book.
- Some level of effort went into making this album… it wasn't tossed off, but that's maybe more of a damnation than a praise.
- Clearly tossed off as a lark by a prolific author, the play's take on contemporary life as farce comes off as zany but obvious.
- 1.1Drink something rapidly or all at once.
Roger tossed off a full glass of Sauternes Example sentencesExamples - The other was dawdling with the bottle, and Martin refused to wait for him, tossing the glass off in a gulp and refilling it.
Synonyms drink, drink down, drink up, quaff, swallow, gulp, gulp down, drain, put away, guzzle, sup, sip, finish off
toss (someone or oneself) off
Origin Early 16th century: of unknown origin. Rhymes across, boss, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, floss, fosse, gloss, Goss, joss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross Definition of toss in US English: tossverb 1with object and adverbial of direction Throw (something) somewhere lightly, easily, or casually. Suzy tossed her bag onto the sofa with two objects she tossed me a box of matches Example sentencesExamples - Jonnie shuts the phone and casually tosses it onto the dresser.
- Inevitably my stepfather would pull a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out of a brown paper bag and toss it onto the counter.
- The doctor slumps back in his chair, and casually tosses his glasses onto the paper-stacked desk.
- But, you don't have to go far before you see someone casually toss a sweet wrapper or half-eaten lolly onto the ground.
- Reaching into his own lunch bag, he lightly tossed a satsuma her way.
- I rolled my eyes, zipped up my bag, and tossed it onto my bed, pacing around the room as I thought further.
- I shrugged, tossed the shuttle casually to my right, and smacked it anywhere over the net.
- Please enjoy how Bill just casually tosses a floppy disc in the air.
- Upon our arrival, several large men unloaded the car and casually tossed the old machines into the growing pile pictured below.
- ‘I'll pack your stuff,’ Kit said, while tossing her bag lightly onto the bed from the desk.
- He turned around and saw me standing about fifteen feet away from him, tossing a rock casually.
- Nodding firmly, Junko casually tossed the dress back into the box and followed her uncle into the kitchen.
- She flashed another smile as she casually tossed the towel back to him, taking another sip of her drink.
- He pulled out a soccer jersey and casually tossed it to Jason.
- I reached home and casually tossed the baggie onto a table.
- Three middle-aged men hold their fags in their mouths as they casually toss their plastic chips on to the numbered grid at their fingertips.
- Mac tossed his duffel bag onto one of the two beds in their rented room, then glanced around.
- He casually tossed a knife into the air, and it was that motion that caught Kim's attention.
- After turning the pillow 45 degrees and back again, she might have tossed it casually on the sofa.
- She glanced sideways at Nadeline, who nodded and took out the bag, tossing it casually on the table, the sound of coins echoing through the pub.
Synonyms throw, hurl, cast, fling, sling, pitch, shy, lob, propel, launch, project, send, dash, bowl - 1.1 (of a horse) throw (a rider) off its back.
Example sentencesExamples - My three year old stud colt had tossed me right in the middle of the arena.
- Diving into the nearby meadow, she could do nothing but glance up in horror as the horse reared and tossed its rider onto a grassy patch beside her.
- Zimmerman was tossed to the ground and was hit slightly by a passing horse when he attempted to get to the inside rail.
- 1.2 Throw (a coin) into the air in order to make a decision between two alternatives, based on which side of the coin faces up when it lands.
we could just toss a coin Example sentencesExamples - With a probability of 51%, a coin will land on the same side that it was tossed from.
- I tossed up calling Katelyn and telling her, but I figured that we probably weren't meant to know.
- I wondered how many of them had been granted, and momentarily debated whether or not tossing in a coin would help my situation.
- Archie is an indecisive Englishman who can only make a decision after tossing a coin.
- A coin will be tossed to determine who will make the first opening statement.
- Imagine tossing a coin until it lands heads-up, and suppose that the payoff grows exponentially according to the number of tosses you make.
- I have juggled with the report's contents, even tossing up a coin to see if Sean was serious or had a good old belly laugh as he wrote it.
- For example, after tossing a coin many times, it will land ‘heads up’ nine times in a row.
- If you were a quantum mechanic tossing a coin, it would land on the table, but no particular side would be facing up until you looked at it.
- It was a try - I never put my foot in touch - but the linesman was tossing the coin for decisions all game so I didn't know what he'd say.
- Burnett and Skyner milked the applause, shook hands, sent over a few practice swings and tossed up for who was going first.
- 1.3 Settle a matter with (someone) by tossing a coin.
2Move or cause to move from side to side or back and forth. with object the yachts were tossed around in the harbor like toys no object the tops of the olive trees swayed and tossed as adjective in combination wind-tossed lakes Example sentencesExamples - As for the solicitous spouse… they probably started the day complaining bitterly about the patient having tossed and turned all night long.
- Night after night I tossed and turned, racking my brain.
- Others tossed and turned to catch the elusive sleep.
- She tossed and turned in bed and finally gave up, getting out of bed to check her email, and a possible update from either Noelle or Jean.
- Christopher tossed and turned throughout the evening, dreaming and waking and starting the cycle over again.
- Jane tossed and turned for thirty so minutes, not able to find the right position, and unable to settle because of the thunder storm.
- I tossed and turned, not due to any specific problem, but in retrospect, I realize I was worried about him going to school.
- We tossed and turned, followed by long embracement like we've been longing for each other throughout our whole lives.
- Natasha groaned to herself as she tossed and turned on her bed.
- She tossed and turned before eventually falling asleep.
- I could not get to sleep last night, I just tossed and turned until I finally did fall asleep at about 6: 30AM.
- I tossed and turned all night, tired but unable to sleep.
- I tossed and turned last night, waking every 2 hours hoping that it was morning, praying that it wasn't.
- He had tossed and turned, wondering what he should do with Angela.
- All that night, the Princess tossed and turned.
- I could tell his leg was broken by the way it didn't move with the rest of him as he tossed and turned, I could tell it was hurting just to do so.
- So he tossed and turned, pretending to awaken, then feigned surprise at seeing the lady of the castle upon opening his eyes.
- Instead I tossed and turned for virtually the whole night.
- Sierra tossed and turned, begging for sleep that refused to come.
- Sakazawa was tossed and shaken as the ship bore the brunt of the attack.
- Shrugging, she tossed and turned for awhile, willing herself back to sleep, finally, she managed to drop off.
Synonyms flail, thrash about, roll, tumble lurch, reel, list, keel, veer, labour, flounder, plunge, rock, roll, sway, undulate, pitch, heave, wallow, make heavy weather - 2.1 Jerk (one's head or hair) sharply backward.
Paula pursed her lips and tossed her head Example sentencesExamples - The dragon stood slightly, tossing its head upwards as though craving to take off into the sky.
- I leaned over the windowsill, tossing my beautiful head of hair, giggling madly at something my best friend Eira had said.
- My mother's bobbed hair blew into her face, and she tossed her head to make it fly back in place.
- She tossed her long hair backwards and gallantly stood awaiting my reaction.
- I moved my mare into a canter, and the second horse tossed its head and whinnied in irritation at the feel of Gyric's weight against its neck.
- The black horses tossed their heads and whinnied loudly, stamping the ground and flicking their tails restlessly.
- The light breeze caught her hair and sent it flying backwards as she tossed her head.
- But she inhaled sharply, bit down hard on her lower lip, and tossed her hair.
- The golden horse tossed his head, long cream colored mane whipping, and whinnied shrilly.
- She was just exiting the bathroom as she tossed her hair backwards.
- Nicole voiced in confusion, her newly blonde-streaked brown hair swishing as she tossed her head up to look at us.
- Ivy stood up with her curvy hour glass figure and tossed her long blonde hair.
- Morgan's lips twisted and he tossed his sandy brown hair out of his face.
- He nodded sharply, inadvertently tossing hair into his face.
- She tosses her head to flip her hair out of her eyes.
- Surprised, the dragons sprang backwards, snorting and tossing their heads.
- Her lip trembled and she tossed her head, but she didn't answer, which was probably the best response she could have made.
- Andy twisted her lips in a wry smile and tossed her dyed black hair over her shoulder.
- She stared at him flatly, tossing her head to get her hair out of her eyes.
- Kish turned sharply enough to toss his hair behind his pointed ear.
- 2.2 Shake or turn (food) in a liquid, so as to coat it lightly.
toss the pasta in the sauce Example sentencesExamples - There's usually macaroni salad, but you toss tuna in that and everyone is happy.
- After tossing the gray uniform coat on the back of the open trunk, he lit a cigar.
- Drizzle dressing over chicken mixture, tossing to coat salad ingredients evenly.
- Transfer the meat into a casserole, then quickly toss the onions and carrots in the fat.
- Sit at the ceviche bar and watch the chefs toss tuna with white soy sauce, citrus, and cilantro, or shrimp with roasted tomatoes and avocado slices.
- The traditional way is to lift out the meat and set it aside, while the sauce is tossed with pasta and served topped with grated Parmesan.
- Add the butter and cheese in three equal stages, tossing the pasta each time until it is evenly coated with the mixture.
- Try tossing kidney beans into salads, soups, stews or stir-fries.
- Later, the girls all sat down for a rather light meal consisting of chicken, curry, tossed salad, and baked potatoes.
- Tip the mussels and their juices into the frying pan, tossing well to coat.
- Drain octopus, place in a mixing bowl and pour over enough dressing until the octopus is just coated; toss lightly.
- Transfer to a large, lidded flame-proof casserole, and lightly toss the onions and carrots in the fat.
- Add in the buckwheat, the vegetables and the pain d' épice, and toss lightly to coat, making sure the ingredients are nicely blended.
- Add the pasta, tossing lightly to combine well to coat, along with a few spoonfuls of the pasta water if dry.
- Shake skillet, tossing beans to coat with oil, garlic, and breadcrumbs.
- Tony was first, taking the order from the cashier, getting the dough, tossing the pizza, and passing it to Antonia, Tony's sister.
- I just cook the sauce in a wide frying pan, toss the freshly cooked gnocchi into it and then serve it from the pan.
- Pour over cereal mix, toss lightly to coat evenly.
- Drain off any liquid, then toss with 2 tablespoons lemon juice and set aside.
- Slowly sautéed pearl onions are tossed with walnuts, splashed with fig vinegar, and showered with snipped fresh savory.
Synonyms shake, stir, turn, churn, mix, combine
3North American informal with object Search (a place) I could demand her keys and toss her office
noun 1An action or instance of tossing something. a defiant toss of her head Example sentencesExamples - Participants were told either that they would be betting on two blocks of six coin tosses, or on two blocks of seven.
- The situation with share selection strategies and investment funds is more complicated than coin tosses because there are so many different factors at work.
- I love coin tosses and am thinking about starting a website dedicated solely to documenting each and every coin toss result from each and every sporting event in the history of the world.
- The situation is analogous to trying to estimate the bias of two unfair coins from a series of tosses.
- And Telicia, a lefty, got two of her three tosses through a moving hoop in that event.
- Come on, this whodunit tale is quite engrossing with its frequent tosses, turns and twists.
- He was not saying that the probability of getting just one head from ten coin tosses is the same as that of getting five heads.
- The players in the group then establish a playing order - one through four in a foursome - by calling coin tosses, chipping toward a tee marker or any other simple method.
- Consider a person who is betting on coin tosses and the prior outcomes were Heads, Tails, Tails, Heads, Heads, Heads.
- There'd be some coin tosses made, and probably even some arguments.
- The palm of my hand brushed up against hers; causing a spark of emotions through my arm, paining my stomach with tosses and turns.
- Such a graph reveals that for the spins and velocities typically encountered in coin tosses, tiny changes in initial conditions make the difference between heads and tails.
- Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes.
- He was probably sitting upright in bed, his untidy brown hair, that I teased never had seen a hair brush before, in a horrifying mess, from all the tosses and turns he made in his sleep.
- The reason is that H and T represent heads and tails in a sequence of coin tosses.
- I quickly scooped him up and dropped him into his tank of pure spring water so he didn't dry out but I didn't see this lasting long unless he started to win the home-turf advantage coin tosses.
- Consider a statistician, sitting down to construct a table for his new textbook, which will show a normal distribution of heads and tails over a series of one-hundred coin tosses.
- This sequence of coin tosses will not, however, trigger a design inference.
- He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
- 1.1the toss The action of tossing a coin as a method of deciding which team has the right to make a particular decision at the beginning of a game.
we'd win the toss and keep the ball Example sentencesExamples - I think the team that wins the coin toss wins the game about 75% of the time.
- Nalanda winning the toss made a wise decision to give first lease of the wicket to Ananda who were reeling at two wickets for four runs in the fifth over of the match.
- Her team won the toss, and picked the side they wanted to defend, while the Northern Appleton Wildcats got the kickoff.
- Stourbridge after winning the toss surprisingly chose to play against the wind, but proceeded to score twenty points.
- While we played five and lost five in that competition, I think that's a misleading stat because we lost all five tosses, which were crucial, yet were only 30 runs adrift in almost all of the games.
- They won the toss and chose bravely to bat first.
- In six completed matches in the series also involving England, the team winning the toss have gone on to win each match with reasonable ease.
- John won the toss of a coin to present the first program, but this soon gave way to a single compère a year later.
- In the last 20 Tests at Bridgetown the team winning the toss has elected to bat only three times.
- Winning the toss isn't such a blessing here - in nine games, the team losing the toss has won on seven occasions, including the last five ODIs.
- The away team won the toss and decided to play against the breeze in the first half.
- True, a people's referendum would need careful design to ensure people do not have to vote every week, and that they vote on meaningful questions, not blind tosses between bitter and acid.
- In three of them, the team winning the toss won the games.
- After winning the toss and deciding to bat, Brothers were struggling at 3-24 when Matthews walked to the crease.
- Scotland had won the toss and chosen to play with the wind, which made the fact that they trailed 22-12 by half-time all the more ominous.
- Cambridge won the toss and predictably chose Middlesex.
- Seven overs were lost in a late start because of rain and Preston's automatic decision on winning the toss to bat in less than ideal conditions was questionable.
- In the first game Kilkenny won the toss, served first and made an ace on the serve to lead one nil.
- It goes without saying any team which wins the toss will choose to bat.
- Bulgaria won the quarter-final over Israel in Soccer at the 1968 Mexico Olympics in which the deciding factor was the toss of the coin.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - He's still bitter about Papa Shango making him toss his cookies.
- No, it was your favorite ‘Still Desperately Clinging to My Youth’ singer that made me want to toss my cookies.
- The girl, who had never tossed her cookies after seeing the corpses, even the first time, couldn't hold her liquor.
- A lot of guys come in here and toss their cookies.
- Just try not to toss your cookies this time. - Go to the local hockey arena, find the pile of cleared ice out back deposited by the Zamboni and have a snowball fight in your bathing suits.
- He was a natural at teasing Cody and bouncing his little brother around up to the point where Kayla wondered if the little boy was going to toss his cookies all over Landon.
- She looked fine on the outside, but on the inside she was trying to keep from ‘tossing her cookies.’
- People might want to see you drunk and having a good time but nobody wants to see you tossing your cookies into the potted plant in the corner.
- Usually when you hear a record by a new band that cops the style of someone from the past so blatantly, you're ready to toss your cookies.
- I also ate a vegetarian wrap in my room since eating near Brandy makes me want to toss my cookies.
- We spoke to the only other person who was close enough to observe, and not in the process of tossing his cookies, and he's ready to swear that no one else handed the hat to Pogey.
- Now, before all the high-mindedness makes us toss our cookies, we might consider how easy it is for the very rich to take such an apparently noble position on social responsibility.
- Not only was he covered with goosebumps, he was trying not to toss his cookies.
- Right now I'm thinking of an effect in ‘On Sabbath Hill’ that may make you toss your cookies.
- So we ended up going to this Chinese restaurant, and to cut a long story short, I wasn't even able to manage to take three mouthfuls before running to the ladies room and tossing my cookies.
- A reporter for one of the eleven o'clock news remote teams tossed her cookies in the van before doing a stand-up, white-faced and shaky, beside the blood-stained chalk outline of the body.
- And its better now that they hook me up so I can't go toss my cookies’ Jessie smirked, and Niki felt very uncomfortable.
- Things probably went on in those kitchens that'd have one tossing his cookies in the back alley.
- Needless to say, I stopped the car, pulled over and tossed my cookies.
- When a number of us landlubbers became quite seasick, Victor decided it would be funny to capture the experience on film and began taking photos of his employees tossing their cookies overboard.
Synonyms be sick, spew, spew up, fetch up
Phrasal Verbs 1Drink something rapidly or all at once. Roger tossed off a full glass of Sauternes Example sentencesExamples - The other was dawdling with the bottle, and Martin refused to wait for him, tossing the glass off in a gulp and refilling it.
Synonyms drink, drink down, drink up, quaff, swallow, gulp, gulp down, drain, put away, guzzle, sup, sip, finish off 2Produce something rapidly or without thought or effort. some of the best letters are tossed off in a burst of inspiration Example sentencesExamples - Clearly tossed off as a lark by a prolific author, the play's take on contemporary life as farce comes off as zany but obvious.
- How often I've thought this - even tossed it off in conversation.
- The songs - the best they have written since Some Girls in '78-sound as if they were tossed off, like rock 'n' roll is supposed to.
- Some level of effort went into making this album… it wasn't tossed off, but that's maybe more of a damnation than a praise.
- You seem to have tossed it off fairly lightly, Mr O'Sullivan.
- For Universal to toss it off like another second-hand series ripe for a digital dollar draw is spiteful, to both fans and the inquisitive alike.
- OK, I'll admit it, I posted this a couple of months ago as a quick something I tossed off one afternoon.
- I tried to warn her about it, but she tossed them off with an offhand comment about how she told her mother that she wasn't ready for marriage yet.
- Only thing that vaguely weirds me out is why you're writing this one to me instead of just tossing it off to your friends as a funny Sex and the City anecdote.
- In the ubiquitous Rachmaninov Prelude in G-sharp he makes no attempt to compete with the fingerpower of Russian masters, but tosses the piece off with near casual panache.
- I find it kinda funny that when I feel at my worst and post, no one seems to say anything, but when I toss something off in a mini-haze combination of tired and mildly down, everyone's there.
- Sam rushes about in a mad frenzy of excitement, tossing off ideas and phrases, blind to the practicalities of life.
- Students immediately started tossing ideas off the tops of their heads.
- He made a few comments, tossing them off casually, but they all struck home.
- Chelsea tosses the words off casually, fully expecting yet another shocked response to this announcement.
- How often do we just toss off, ‘Hey thanks, you look great too!’
- Tactically, especially if you are going to do this in some way that she'll have to acknowledge that you've made the point (in other words, not ignore or toss off as a joke), I think you have to be prepared for some major blowback.
- Instead he reveals a non-smoking, non-drinking grafter who pretended to toss off plays and movie scripts in an afternoon but actually spent night after night at home writing.
- Yet his plot devices are so slapdash, and key developments are tossed off so perfunctorily, that it seems the author didn't even have the time to write us a good bad book.
- Instead, take a look at this little number I tossed off while waiting for a train…
Origin Early 16th century: of unknown origin. |