How to Use toss back in a Sentence

toss back

verb
  • Bloom smiled into the camera while Daisy wore a pink shirt with white flowers and had her head tossed back.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Plenty of circumstances could make a flight feel like an opportune time to toss back a drink.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Dec. 2025
  • People ate off paper plates, added hot sauce from squeeze bottles and bopped their heads under purple lights, pausing now and then to toss back an oyster.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Running back Brooks Biggers tossed to Boyd, who tossed back to Renda, who fired to the end zone.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Moss, as Koerner remembered, tossed back a saying his Iowa teammates would come to know all too well.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • With that invitation, Ellen decides to toss back the Guinness she’s been offered and leaves with plans to attend the wedding.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The espresso has arrived and been tossed back, and the restaurant has emptied, much as at the end of My Dinner With André.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And Santos is already tossing back a five-hour energy drink while beginning to annoy both of her attendings with her inability to multitask?
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a major caveat of this BMJ Case Reports paper to point out upfront—namely that the patient regularly tossed back eight energy drinks a day.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Just imagine starting the day in a picturesque setting surrounded by hillside vistas, then, by sunset, tossing back a glass of something vintage and exceptionally rare with dinner (maybe made from grapes harvested on the property).
    — Kristin Braswell, Architectural Digest, 23 Mar. 2026

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