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Meanings of tossed like in English

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Usage of tossed like in English
1
Sometimes the platform pitched and tossed like a ship beaten by the waves.
The Moon-Voyage
2
It was a boat, bottom up; driven on, and tossed like a cork.
Foul Play
3
For public consumption there are the usual platitudes tossed like garlands between the combatants.
The Irish Times
4
The rest were tossed like dust upon the wind, and dashed high on shore.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
5
I am, I think you once quoted, ' tossed like a weed on the ocean.'
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
6
Again we were tossed like a feather in a whirlwind, pitchforked from wrath to wrath.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
7
The last thing I remember was the Bradley being tossed like a Hot Wheels car.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
8
You would be tossed like weed on the sea.
Vittoria — Volume 1
9
They were tossed like straws on the raging surf.
Saved by the Lifeboat
10
We rocked and tossed like a ship at sea.
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
11
A strong breeze sprang up and the light canoe tossed like a blossom in the wind.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods; Or, The Winnebagos Go Ca...
12
In their light I saw trees falling, branches tossed like twigs, black things hurtling through space.
Now It Can Be Told
13
Her yellow hair, fine and soft and full of electric life, tossed like a little crest.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
14
For an instant they were tossed like straws in the water, but gradually he strengthened his grip.
The Snowshoe Trail
15
Then I was dragged onward by the powerful current, and tossed like a cork on the river.
In the Track of the Troops
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The white-capped seas raced alongside, and the "Yankee" heaved and tossed like a bucking bronco.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" / From the Diary of Number Five of ...
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