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TOSSING

Traducere în limba română

tossing substantiv

1. aruncare, azvârlire (a mingii).

2. hurducături; aruncare încoace şi încolo.

3. (mine) spălare (a minereului).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

They were never quiet, ceaselessly playing deck-quoits, tossing rings, promenading, or rushing to the rail with loud cries to watch the leaping porpoises and the first schools of flying fish.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

"A fig for Rizzio!" cried she, tossing her head with all its curls, as she moved to the piano.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Indeed, his mood was infectious, for I lay tossing half the night myself, brooding over this strange problem, and inventing a hundred theories, each of which was more impossible than the last.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hum! So much for the police-court,” said Holmes thoughtfully, tossing aside the paper.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What do you think of this, Watson?” he asked, tossing it across.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I got to sleep, which was not till after a great deal of tossing, I slept like a log of wood.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

As he spoke, the vast throng of Spaniards and of Frenchmen trooped across the plain, with brandished arms and tossing banners.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"To be continued," she said, tossing the magazine on the table, "in our very next issue."

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I thought of Holmes tossing upon his bed of sickness and counting the minutes, perhaps, until I could bring help to him.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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