boomerang

[ UK /bˈuːməɹˌæŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbumɝˌæŋ/ ]
VERB
  1. return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang
NOUN
  1. a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
  2. a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
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How To Use boomerang In A Sentence

  • Of course, his most effective weapons are his boomerangs, which he can use to take out distant enemies, break items, or glide from heights.
  • What comes around goes around and whoops that boomerang is headed right for you. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
  • It still has an elegant and fluid design, understated rather than flash, but sadly it is missing the distinctive boomerang-shaped rear lights.
  • She pulled out her huge boomerang and threw it hard at Scy.
  • I've hunted successfully with ‘stick’ bows, blowguns, boomerangs, and slingshots.
  • After leaving us they had attacked him, throwing several boomerangs and waddies at him; he had only one barrel of his gun loaded with shot; they all spread out and surrounded him, gradually approaching from all sides. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • It's what I call the boomerang effect..., he declared. No renegotiation
  • Oh, and I read "An Enigmatic New Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale Member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas," a weird beast named Angulomastacator daviesi, known thus far only from its boomerang-shaped maxilla bone. Waking the Witch
  • I heard the rattle of weapons such as boomerangs and spears.
  • I myself slouch in my chair so badly that my spine is curved like a boomerang.
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