sling

Example Sentences

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It isn’t the sort of number of people you can just decide to sling out, saying “Begone!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Jimenez - who has been free on a $10,000 bond — appeared with his right hand in a sling at a federal court in Riverside on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

The British and Irish Lions flanker was injured while scoring Wales' third try, and watched the closing moments of a heavy defeat from the bench with his left arm in a sling.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

However, the Angling Trust says there is a considerable difference between the catapults they use for propelling fishing bait and sling shots designed to cause injury.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

Her cart had been left back at the clearing, so she made a kind of sling to balance the woman’s weight on Chi-Boy’s back.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline