trebuchet

Example Sentences

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Their long arms function like trebuchets, producing cannon-like serves and powerful forehands.

From New York Times

Besides, it’ll be one more notch on your quarantine belt, next to the sourdough rye, the Byzantine trebuchet and teaching your dog French.

From Seattle Times

Eason — a 6-foot-6 junior with a trebuchet surgically attached to his right shoulder — took the first snaps with the starters and completed a series of short passes, but failed to consistently move the offense.

From Seattle Times

As a furloughed government employee with a lot of time on my hands, I enjoyed reading Dana Milbank’s backward-looking column “Hold the wall! Man the trebuchets!”

From Washington Post

Without matching the enemy trebuchet-for-trebuchet, Petersen told me, “you have to sally out and burn the enemy’s trebuchets, and that can get nasty really fast.”

From Washington Post