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  • verb Past participle of outthrow

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Examples

  • “Okay, kid, maybe you could have outthrown me in my pitching days,” he said.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • “Okay, kid, maybe you could have outthrown me in my pitching days,” he said.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • “Okay, kid, maybe you could have outthrown me in my pitching days,” he said.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • He set up a colossal statue with arms outthrown to bar the egress; the statue of Confucius preaching the Balanced

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • Face down lay the boy, limp, his hands outthrown beside him.

    The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • Dick lay upon the floor with outthrown arms, and the figure stood over him in a listening attitude.

    The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898

  • The sheriff grasped one of the outthrown arms; it was as rigid as iron, and the application of a gentle force rocked the entire body without altering the relation of its parts.

    Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

  • As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see, as he threw back a glance, that this horror was bounding like a tiger at his heels, with blazing eyes and one stringy arm outthrown.

    Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894

  • As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see, as he threw back a glance, that this horror was bounding like a tiger at his heels, with blazing eyes and one stringy arm outthrown.

    Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The sheriff grasped one of the outthrown arms; it was as rigid as iron, and the application of a gentle force rocked the entire body without altering the relation of its parts.

    Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878

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