catapult
Example Sentences
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"Stranger Things definitely needs to switch off its boombox, hang up its catapults and admit it's too old for these capers, but it's worth indulging it one last time," Seale wrote.
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Now, it seemed as though China had catapulted to the forefront.
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"I get catapulted back – emotionally, everything. I'm back in the room. I'm back in the wake with his body – because it's the last place he was for me."
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She said she feared the consent could "catapult some of Scotland's most-loved seabird species towards extinction".
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Black was catapulted into the political limelight when she was elected to Westminster at the age of 20 and became the youngest MP since 1832.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.