Examples of throwing in the following topics:
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- Ceramics can also be made by using a potter's wheel in a process called 'throwing'.
- During the process of throwing, the wheel rotates rapidly while the solid ball of soft clay is pressed, squeezed and pulled gently upwards and outwards into a hollow shape.
- This is an important skill to master before the next steps: opening (making a centered hollow into the solid ball of clay), flooring (making the flat or rounded bottom inside the pot), throwing or pulling (drawing up and shaping the walls to an even thickness), and trimming or turning (removing excess clay to refine the shape or to create a foot) .
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- The two teams, placed roughly 30 meters apart, take turns throwing nuts at the circle of nuts.
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- Although ceramics developed in East Asia c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, the practice of throwing arose with the invention of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia around the fourth millennium BCE.
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- Dorothy Hale committed suicide by throwing herself out of a very high window of the Hampshire House building.
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- Key Renaissance architectural features of the main facade include the alternating triangular and segmental pediments that cap the windows of the piano nobile, the central rusticated portal, and Michelangelo's projecting cornice, which throws a deep shadow on the top of the facade.
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- An archer crouches with his bow and arrow, while others throw rocks down from the wall at the invaders.