Sentences with phrase «flings on»

Even mobile apps such as tinder have taken over, with most people being involved with random flings on there.

He names the day when he grants that unexpected furlough... The 1942 schedule may run something like this: engagement announcement on Monday, invitations sent out by telegraph on Wednesday, the last handful of rice and rose petals flung on Saturday.»

D'Antoni, who was wearing only trousers and black silk socks, flung himself on a couch.

The Arsenal that kept getting chewed up by their theoretical peers were an almost comically adolescent Arsenal: they believed they were right about everything; they thought they'd solved the riddles of the universe; and as soon as something started to go wrong they would storm upstairs, slam the door and fling themselves on their bed wailing «It's not fair!»

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack pic.twitter.com/XjVnmQqm 0u

Pete was sweating and anxious, worried about Jacob, me, and the Christmas tree that he'd flung on to the car roof and tied on in a frantic rush to get us back to our sofa and shields combination.

Watch: Angus Sinclair said a mobile phone was «flung on the desk in front of me and broke into a lot of bits».

«I was working at my desk and he came in and was absolutely furious about something... There was a lot of bad language and suddenly his mobile phone which he'd been holding was flung on the desk in front of me and broke into a lot of bits.»

(Cue the flinging myself on the bed and whining.)

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You can access Fling on iOS and Android using the mobile website (mobile.fling.com).

However, with earnest effort and patience, you can get a fling on the website.

After a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan Fraser (Davis) returns home pregnant.

A French Marine, Henri Morienval, thought them «remarkable for their courage and their ferocity... flung themselves on our bayonets with prodigious bravery.»

They play New York singles having a fling on the Internet.

She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper.

True to its title, the exhibition format seems «collapsed» here, leaving pieces scattered on the floor and flung on the walls.

You're sitting at your desk, hair dishevelled, suit jacket flung on the floor, papers and files scattered all over the place, and you're scratching around in your head for the right words to put an end to the memorandum that a senior lawyer threw on your desk hours ago and expects before morning.

You stretch, get out of bed, fling on something warm, and open the front door to gaze out at the day.

Whether that banana was flung on your rug in the UK or thousands of miles away in the UAE, it's still just as painful to get down on your knees and scrub it.

Whether that banana was flung on your rug in the UK or thousands of miles away in the UAE, it's still just as painful to get down on your knees and scrub it.

Not exact matches

When we think about cyberattacks on businesses, many of us think of a hoodie - clad hacker slouched over a keyboard in some far - flung, underground lair.

If anything the potential for disruption is greater in Alberta, where people think nothing of driving three hours each way for a weekend jaunt in the mountains and where Calgary and Edmonton are putting the finishing touches on ring roads that link far - flung suburbs and quicken the commutes from semi-rural acreages.

As the son of Bill Price, a Canadian foreign diplomat, Shawn came along on his father's far - flung postings throughout Europe, Australia, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Eisenhower, according to a 1953 article in The Miami Daily News, «rubs the steak with oil and garlic and then, as the horrified guests look on, casually flings the steak into the midst of the red and glowing coals.»

Already its computing prowess is being used to process genetic research data 100 times faster; HPE engineers hope it will one day travel on Mars missions to empower far - flung astronauts to run experiments without contacting Earth.

The trend of retailers flinging open their doors on Thanksgiving may be giving way to something more old fashioned: Staying shut.

Similar to meal kits, the company now offers travel packages called Times Journeys, where travelers can go on far - flung tours led by the Times» foreign correspondents.

«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

Working with Best Buy, Fling saw that the company could provide customers other valuable utilities on the mobile site, such as a tool to alert customers when a store has an item, and to be able to hold it if they do.

On Tuesday Buffalo Wild Wings released a presentation to shareholders that emphasized the firm's strength and took shots at recent criticisms flung at the casual dining chain by Marcato.

GoPro «channels» that air videos — from close - ups of hummingbirds to a base jumper flinging herself off a cliff in high heels — are already available on Virgin America flights and Xbox gaming consoles, while a YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers.

More recently, Sterling used a fling with an airline stewardess (that's what they were called then), who tipped him off on midwestern executives flying to New York to interview advertising agencies.

As facilities such as oil refineries and large electrical utilities become ever more reliant on remote - control systems linked by far - flung digital networks, the demand for highly reliable security has taken off.

It's working, too, as Fling CEO Marco Nardone told me that over 1.1 million users are logging on a month (and 200,000 active users a day), delivering 33 million «flings» daily.

If the doors of opportunity open up even a sliver, stick your foot in, take a risk, bet on yourself and then fling them open.

The lawsuit is the latest twist in a long - running saga that sullied the drug maker's reputation and generated significant attention on the business practices of the pharmaceutical industry in far - flung countries.

One point often lost on critics of that outfit is that its main liability — entwinement with a far - flung political network — also accounts for its unique ability to mobilize new resources and partnerships behind different causes.

Apple won a decisive victory on Friday in a lawsuit against Samsung, a verdict that will give Apple ammunition in a far - flung patent war with its global competitors in the smartphone business.

It can be challenging to keep an eye on all of your far - flung employees» accomplishments.

The network on which Bitcoin is stored and transferred was designed to operate without any company or government in charge, governed by a far - flung collaboration of volunteer programmers and computers that maintain all the records.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

Barth gathers the questionings of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not upon the conscious will of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will of God.

And then, after the day's reading, fling open the one of the 25 advent doors — and discover that day's Biblical ornament to hang on your very own tree — that will end up telling the grandest Gospel story, from the Beginning to Bethlehem!

On that day, we fling open our blinds and we wash the windows from the inside, we sweep our floors because the light has shown us the dust of our comfort.

and then the dark water was full of women flinging themselves off and in, forward, bras and smart phones left on the dock.

Finally, on the orders of the city magistrates, there was a wholesale arrest of Christians in Lyons, they were flung into prison where they lay in their own filth and excrement, some died and some lived.

Returning from a meeting on «the future of the church» Nick Page is flung into the future, to the year 2040, where he is given the chance to find out for himself.

Returning from a meeting on «the future of the church» Nick Page is flung into the future, to the year 2040.

Sometimes a freshman fling happens as a response to freedom — you're living away from home for the first time, and there are no parents to check in on your love life.