What's the difference between flong and flung?

Flong


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Example Sentences:

Flung


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Fling
  • () imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (2) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
  • (3) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
  • (4) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
  • (5) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
  • (6) Ibrahimovic won a penalty five minutes before half-time but Peter Jehle flung himself to his right to save the spot-kick.
  • (7) Nolito played Fàbregas in just after the restart and he was felled by Oleksandr Kucher but Pyatov flung out an arm to send the midfielder’s spot kick over the bar.
  • (8) To see the doctor, governor, probation officer … cell doors are flung open with regularity.
  • (9) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
  • (10) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
  • (11) Rosberg flung it back, without the flicker of a smile.
  • (12) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
  • (13) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
  • (14) Many of the inmates in the far-flung penal colonies in which they were incarcerated were serving time for drug-related crimes.
  • (15) Butsuch comments remind me of those flung at my father, whose family was killed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
  • (16) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
  • (17) Hodgson, his side trailing to Gareth Bale’s long-range, first-half free-kick, had boldly flung on Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at the interval with both strikers scoring as his side kickstarted their campaign by vaulting to the top of the group.
  • (18) There is chance the words "47%" are not going to be flung at him this time.
  • (19) The first participants, who must all be aged under 24, are expected to travel to far-flung communities in the developing world to take part in projects in the months before Christmas.
  • (20) This had been such a grind, a test of patience as much as quality, against admirably resolute opponents who flung down a four-man barrier of centre-halves supplemented by workaholic wingers who plugged the full-back areas whenever they were denied the ball.

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