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- throw + -able (Wiktionary)
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“Eason said boaters also ought to keep a life preserver or other "throwable" flotation device aboard their vessel to toss to a swimmer in distress so they can offer help without entering the water or endangering other lives.”
“Police department has also issued guidelines for the spectators and asked them not to carry any 'throwable' or inflammable substance, the DCP said.”
“This past weekend, the weather in New York City turned suddenly from craptacular to spring-tastic, and while there's ample time for throwable forms of precipitation such as snow to fall one can be forgiven for feeling as though the worst may be behind us.”
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“They changed it for the movie so as not to step on the toes of a popular line of throwable discs.”
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“I understand that ceremonies of this sort are crowded, and that one might want more standing room, but wouldn't you think the guards might be a little wary of something that throwable being passed hand-to-hand at head level?”
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“From throwable video cameras to shotgun-wielding robots, these are the gadgets that help you sleep at night, unless you have something to hide ... Left: iRobot , makers of the popular housecleaning bot, Roomba, also makes industrial and military robots.”
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“I assure you if you start throwing things at cars, you might want something more intimidating than "tomatoes or other whimsical throwable objects".”
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“Honking is why all bicycles should be rigged up with baskets in front full of tomatoes or other whimsical throwable objects.”
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“Sunny happy quiet spacious green hot cool shady fast amusing cute climbable slidable sprintable unprintable swingable pickable chasable loving musical vocal loud smelly clean naked speedy strong beautiful cuddly clothed enclosed drowsy suckly sleepy startled hungry tasty wasty hasty munchy throwable blowable grown slow forlorn assertive kissable reassuring beloved adorable.”
“Marine Corps' Warfighting Laboratory, have developed a small, throwable, remote-controlled prototype robot designed for surveillance in urban settings.”
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