slingshot
Example Sentences
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Fernando, Osmin and their two younger brothers spent their free time shooting slingshots and riding ATVs around acres of dirt roads and fields that belonged to the company where their parents worked.
They even carried slingshots loaded with very hard acorns, in case they met up with dangerous mail bandits along their postal route.
From Literature
Two years ago, a girl won at the toy fair for a game in which cats with slingshots fire hairballs that knock down household objects.
Catapult crimes are not included in official statistics, so BBC Verify sent Freedom of Information requests to police forces in England and Wales, asking for crime records which mentioned the words "catapult" or "slingshot".
From BBC
So although he was just one David against an army of Goliaths, he was not new to the practice of reloading a slingshot.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.