slung

Example Sentences

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As he strutted into the UConn locker room after the game, he had his arm slung around Mullins’s shoulders and only one word on his mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

As the two old men told their stories, a youngster brushed past them, a machete slung over his shoulder.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

In the station concourse a young soldier with a Kalashnikov slung across his back was hugging his girlfriend before she left to go west and he went back to his unit.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

He enters Colburn’s 400-capacity Zipper Hall, where he will debut it on Dec. 3, with the case slung lightly on his back.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

My phone starts buzzing loudly in the pocket of my red coat, which is slung across Mom’s lap.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day