How to Use toss out in a Sentence

toss out

verb
  • Liman tossed out both suits last year.
    — Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 4 May 2026
  • Liman tossed out both suits last year.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Cord blood is often tossed out during the birthing process.
    — Angelica P. Ahrens, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
  • One robot slid around the ice tossing out yellow balls.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Both actors had some of their legal claims tossed out by the judge in recent months.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • But the Sharks weren’t just tossing out funny money.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • One codefendant has already sought to have his charges tossed out in a motion filed last week.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Cork can only be harvested once a decade from each tree, which is why tossing out corks is such a shame.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • With this in mind, engineers are always looking for things to toss out of an airframe.
    — David Szondy march 11, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2026
  • With the tariffs tossed out, here's what the reality of his doing so looks like.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • An appeals court last year tossed out the financial penalty, but left in place the fraud finding.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • But a judge swiftly tossed out those cases in November.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Alcohol was involved, insults were tossed out.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Any mention of taking over the women’s program surfaced in passing and was tossed out as a joke.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In fact, Kimmel has made a game of just tossing out wild Hollywood names.
    — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The first one, on unrelated false-statement and obstruction charges, was tossed out by a judge last year.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There are hints tossed out to suggest his characters’ inner recesses.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Watching Simone toss out the first pitch at a Houston Astros game!
    — Matthew Acosta, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Organic items like apple cores do not decompose properly when tossed out a car window.
    — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 2 May 2026
  • Last September, a state judge tossed out terrorism charges filed against Mangione.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 15 June 2026
  • Gardner was kept busy tossing out his hat, some spare boots, flashlight, and other gear to mark the places at which the meat was being jettisoned.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Some absentee and overseas military votes that already have been cast for Congress would be tossed out.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • In January, district judges began tossing out Dhillon’s attempts to get ahold of state voter rolls.
    — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The companies argue emissions are a national issue that should be heard in federal court, where similar suits have been tossed out.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The companies argue emissions are a national issue that should be heard in federal court, where similar suits have been tossed out.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • So far, federal judges have tossed out half a dozen of the Justice Department’s attempts to get unredacted state voter rolls.
    — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • Voters struggling to pay their bills had tossed out the Tories, but initial efforts by Labour to turn the economy around failed to bring major change.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • But a federal judge, the 5th Circuit Court and now the Supreme Court have tossed out Landor’s suit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • Those gauges toss out the highest and lowest inputs to inflation calculations and focus on readings closer to the midpoint of the data.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • In that case, try stretching your bait supply by tossing out just a couple of live pilchards every 15 or 20 minutes instead of every five minutes.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026

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