How To Use Catapult In A Sentence
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A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
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He unscrewed the catapult piece by piece feeling depressed.
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He said: ‘We have had bricks, snooker balls, missiles shot by catapults and all sorts.’
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Certainly not establishing any huge steps forward for the aeronautical field, the specification called for a robust aircraft that could operate from the catapults being carried by the battleships and cruisers of the day.
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With crashed cars in front spinning out of control, he rammed another driver and was catapulted into the air.
The Sun
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Last year a man lost the sight in his left eye after he answered a knock at his door and was hit by a stone fired from a catapult.
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It's concepts like this that are catapulting entertainment to places it's never been to before.
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Ian was amazed at the speed at which he had catapulted back to reality.
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The book catapulted the author into fame overnight.
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Some few of these ships had catapult-launched Hurricane fighters - the nearest equivalent to the suicidal Japanese kamikaze planes that Britain ever had.
San Andreas
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Everything else at the weekend catapulted me back 30 years as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed Archimedes was famous for his application of the law of the lever to the construction of catapults for military purposes.
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His entire being had been drained by the immense blast he'd unleashed on the assaulting legions, but Rakael's desperate cry for help had catapulted him out of his repose.
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Shutting down and egressing from the aircraft while on the catapult would have been the most conservative course of action.
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Steam catapults are labour intensive, while an electromagnetic aircraft-launch system appears to promise a reduction in the number of personnel involved.
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The growing spending power of the UK's Premiership stars has catapulted 21 new players onto the list.
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Winning the Kentucky Derby is always special, particularly in the prism of the present time, when a horse catapults from unknown to Triple Crown threat based on the win.
Secretariat: real-life footage is going to be awfully hard to beat
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With crashed cars in front spinning out of control, he rammed another driver and was catapulted into the air.
The Sun
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
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Gazing at their little arms, and their toothy (and sometimes toothless) grins, I wondered what it would be like to be catapulted from a world where your opportunities in life were, on any social and economic index, likely to be pretty limited, to one I couldn't even dream of: one where you understand how the black dots on a page turn into something that lifts the human heart, and where the way you move horse hair over strings can make the soul soar.
Christina Patterson: Why Our Children Should Reach for the Stars
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A missile catapulted from the Columbia's missile tube and fired its rocket motor.
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Twice a day a huge, medieval siege catapult launches a fireball in battle.
The Sun
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Chinese stocks have nearly sextupled in value in just two years and set yet another record yesterday, when the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index catapulted above 6000 for the first time.
China's Stock Surge Raises
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With crashed cars in front spinning out of control, he rammed another driver and was catapulted into the air.
The Sun
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Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
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Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
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His feet caught me square in the shins., causing me to catapult up into the air.
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rimming" to prime-time television audiences - which catapulted him into the limelight.
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As I was sitting on the catapult waiting to launch, I noticed the weather changing.
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At the worlds she won gold in the keirin and sprint and catapulted herself into the frontline of British track cyclists.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the past, armies used catapults to hurl heavy stones at enemy fortifications.
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Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
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When was the last time you used a catapult?
Times, Sunday Times
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Her innate charm even at her age and her adeptness at being able to turn a situation, howsoever desperate, in her favour, catapult her from the degrading depths of poverty into a fairly comfortable Brahmin priestess.
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Two parallel beams between the tail hook and the forward landing gear form the keelson structure which provides structural strength to withstand repeated loading of carrier catapult launches and arrester landings.
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Using an air rifle or a high-powered catapult, the vandals smashed ten of the ground's floodlights causing over €1,000 worth of damage.
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The attack was the culmination of a week of harassment of the newspaper, starting with a demonstration by war veterans on Tuesday in which journalists were assaulted and heavy iron bolts were fired from catapults through office windows.
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Although most fleet Kingfishers were catapulted from the fantails of battleships and cruisers, the Navy also tried mounting them on the stern of destroyers.
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Students on two of the teams based their catapults on older designs called mangonels and onagers that used the tension of twisted ropes to store the energy used to propel the tennis balls.
Medieval Technology and Culture class at the University of Southern Indiana
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The player can use catapults, battering rams, ballistas and ancient ‘elevators’.
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If the council rejects the deal, it will catapult Brussels into a legal quagmire.
Times, Sunday Times
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A police spokesman said the Clio is believed to have careered out of control and mounted the roadside kerb before catapulting across the road towards oncoming traffic and ploughing into the van.
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By the 330s, ephebes received a full year of training in hoplite fighting, archery, javelin-throwing, and catapult-firing, followed by a year of patrol duty.
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He was catapulted into the side of the van.
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Rob Hayles catapulted across our Olympic consciousness at the end of a harum-scarum event called the Madison.
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The song, the first tune to be played on Radio 1 when it was launched in 1967, catapulted the group to stardom.
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The seaplane, which had folding wings, was launched by catapult off a runway on the deck.
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Communists catapulted from 45 to 157 seats in the 450-seat Duma to dominate a fractious chamber divided by eight political parties.
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The award for best actress meant that almost overnight she was catapulted into the limelight.
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Kieran: I still need to get hold of a catapult, bowie knife and crossbow. If we encounter any wild animals, I intend to be armed to the teeth.
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How do we cope when we're catapulted back into the home?
Times, Sunday Times
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The award for best actress meant that almost overnight she was catapulted into the limelight.
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If they sign on, your intrapreneurial venture could catapult you to a new level of success in your organization and make you more valuable to the firm.
'Insider' Entrepreneurs
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By the way," he said, "how shall we bring him down -- with a slungshot or a catapult?
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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Then have fun building a shelter, making a fire, carving your own catapult and foraging for food.
The Sun
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Gbagbo was catapulted into the presidency through a series of remarkable events.
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Chinese sources refer to catapult-launched exploding projectiles in 1221, but some historians have argued that the references date to later rewritings of the sources.
Relics of the Kamikaze
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The young artist found himself catapulted onto the small screen interviewing painters, dancers and rock stars.
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His name was Martin Luther King Jr., and the same inimitable public speaking style that catapulted King to the top at the Crozer Theological Seminary would also steer the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Google's biggest ever deal probably catapulted the word patent up the list of the week's most searched for terms.
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I told the driver to move off and became part of a giant catapult.
The Sun
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These networks are catapulting to popularity as the architecture of choice for centrally managed network storage tasks.
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A giddy sense of deja vu overwhelmed her, catapulting her back two years, back to the same room.
COMPULSION
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Six jet-fighters catapulted from the deck of the carrier.
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Fishing close to the margins with meat, Dallton was bagging the odd nice carp until the intervention of a beast of 15-10 catapulted him to the top of the prize list.
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The book catapulted the author into fame overnight.
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the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort
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A spigot projecting from the otherwise cylindrical charge would have been used to locate it accurately on the catapult.
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Being catapulted into the limelight gave her opportunities to fuel her addictions.
The Sun
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Catapults of the Middle Ages were divided into two major groups: ballistas, and trebuchets.
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Suddenly she was catapulted into his jet-set lifestyle.
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Two of the victims were killed instantly when the force of the collision catapulted them through the rear window of the car.
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The catapult was the howitzer, or mortar, of its day and could throw
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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Her latest film will almost certainly please her fan base while catapulting her back to the top of the box office charts.
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On that type of aircraft carrier, a catapult was used to help launch aircraft.
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It didn't take long for some bright spark to try out the Doom Diver Catapult in a battle.
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The man ran well for his size, and just before the guards could reach out to him, catapulted around a lamppost and went off on a tangent.
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An extra two per cent could have catapulted me from an E in chemistry to that all-important D.
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The single, written as a crowd-pleaser, was the band's first hit and it catapulted them into mags, on to TV and got them two gigs with the Beatles.
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When he finally comes up sputtering from the muddy waters of the Big Black River, there is an instant when Keith Lane looks like some ancient water god who has been catapulted into the 21st century.
The Catfish Men
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Nothing can catapult you into the highest stratum of intellectuality, quite as readily as books.
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His mind was running too efficiently, like a catapult launching a stone so fast that its pegs splintered.
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Did that man really just take one single rocket jump to catapult himself on to the pub bar?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Departure had played only a scattering of gigs in local hostelries before being catapulted onto festival stages in 2004.
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It is a fictional account of the real events which catapulted the women to stardom but charts the price they had to pay when they were subjected to the glare of the world's media.
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In retaliation, catapults, trebuchets and arrows from the Bismarck archers rained down on the Mongols.
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It is attached to a giant catapult.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet shining like a ray of blissed-out sunshine and catapulting its way into your consciousness amidst this mediocrity is the quite simply gorgeous title track.
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According to conventional accounts, the city's radicalized population catapulted the Guomindang northward in 1926 on a political and military mission to reunify the nation.
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Then a series of family tragedies catapulted him to his present eminence.
Times, Sunday Times
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This catapult-launched spy plane has a 10-foot wingspan and is 4 feet long, and can stay in the air for more than 20 hours.
6 Scary Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Used by the Military | Impact Lab
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Catapulting Jackson into the eye of the maelstrom was his explosively creative pairing with another multi-faceted industry legend, Quincy Jones.
Gail Mitchell: Michael Jackson's Unparalleled Musical Legacy
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Officers believe that someone is driving round in a car with a weapon capable of discharging the ball bearings, possibly a catapult, and firing it randomly at properties.
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Fans of the first film will agree that the sheer ambiguousness and enigmatic status of the film's villain was the main ingredient that catapulted the original into cult status.
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Twice a day a huge, medieval siege catapult launches a fireball in battle.
The Sun
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Matt Carse, an archaeologist of the most definitely rogueish sort of tomb raider is looking to score, when the discovery of the mythical Sword of Rhiannon catapults him back into time, and into the body of a man well suited to be a barbarian adventurer.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Eric John Stark - Sea-Kings Of Mars and Otherworldly Stories
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In the past, armies used catapults to hurl heavy stones at enemy fortifications.
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The surface tension catapult is not capable of the discharge distances characteristic of squirt gun mechanisms like the explosive asci of ascomycete fungi and the sporangiophore of
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One ballista impaled an ogre, bringing him down, and two of the catapult stones smashed others, but the rest came on.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Probably a cargo pod, catapult-launched from Leyburg, she judged.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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They have to make use of planetary alignments, or ‘launch windows’, to provide an extra gravitational slingshot effect, helping to catapult them further out into space.
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The series of events that undoubtedly inspired their hugely successful breakthrough album - catapulting them up charts and onto international magazine covers - could not have been predicted.
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Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besieged towns to scare the inhabitants.
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That's enough to catapult it to 60 mph in 10.1 seconds and on to a top speed of 113 mph.
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On one occasion William catapulted a lump of metal into a classroom full of pupils and a girl was quite badly injured.
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Had I suddenly found myself catapulted forward in time to Christmas?
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Caesar covered his landing in Britain with catapults and ballistas.
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‘No one saw it, and they used a catapult to launch’ the airplane.
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The only things that were in decent repair were the few arbalest and catapults, mainly maintained, I suspected, for show.
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So while Britney hasn ` t been perfect, she ` s definitely not been the poster child for being a completely bad mother, where Kevin is just really known as a partier, he ` s looked upon by many as an opportunist, and people feel like he ` s trying to use Britney ` s fame to not only catapult his career but really set him up for life.
CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2006
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The minimum flight velocity was so high that the aircraft could not be hand-launched but instead required a catapult.
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The New Democratic movement of pro-free market moderates, which helped catapult Bill Clinton into the White House in 1992, has splintered, transformed by a reinvigoration of grassroots energy.
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The multiple shocks to body and mind sent his wounded psyche catapulting down the dark tunnel to oblivion in a dead faint.
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His early experiments involved catapulting marbles across a tub of water in his garden.
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As it approached mid day we decided to pack up and I fired out the floating pellets on to the water with my catapult and then started to pack away my gear.
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So far, at least, no one had seen one single piece of siege equipment, not one ballista or catapult, not so much as a ram.
A TIME OF WAR
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But the idea of high-level support for such action was catapulted into the headlines after the well-connected columnist Nahum Barnea asked in an article in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper last Friday whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak had decided between them to attack Iran's nuclear installations.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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It was rammed so hard that the car was catapulted into a nearby brick wall, causing £4,000 of damage.
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Pass plays could be even more frustrating, since trying to accurately throw a piece of felt with the metal catapult was like trying to thread a needle from across the room.
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The catapult breaks throwing boiling Hot Pot gloop everywhere.
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With her catapult and her shop lifting, Jake causes chaos.
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Before Night Falls, ironically, was the film that helped to catapult Bardem into the American spotlight.
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I was standing a squadron watch in the carrier's air operations, with a critical night-missing flight in tension on the catapult.
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The only thing a player needs to operate the catapult is their finger.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Witness the world's largest catapult launch a flaming fireball.
The Sun
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Yet, it was another company that catapulted him to fabulous wealth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Divorce or the death of a husband is enough to catapult a middle-class white woman and her children into poverty.
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These works catapulted him onto the international touring circuit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The US Navy ‘carrier variant’ aircraft will use catapults and arrester wires to get airborne and return - the system currently used by American and French carriers, and familiar to RN aviators before the current Invincible-class ships.
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Enjoying a comeback since it's halcyon days warming the vocal chords of pint-sized 80s popster Nik Kershaw, neckwear for big girl's blouses has been catapulted back into the limelight by the today's softer footballers.
A history of the year in 100 objects – part four
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The two types of siege weapons were catapults and ballistae, with catapults being the predecessor (Iannuzzo).
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My combat jacket, knife, bags, catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me.
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On that type of aircraft carrier, a catapult was used to help launch aircraft.
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Affleck catapulted to fame after picking up an Oscar.
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That victory also catapulted India's cricketers from mere stars to major celebrities.
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Pull on the spider's leg to catapult him up, so he can chow down on flying bees, gnats and butterflies.
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The new corporation had only two catapult-launched, hydrogen-fuelled ramrockets of less than a thousand tons empty mass; they would soon be obsolete, but they could provide Charles with the experience that, Sir Lawrence was quite certain, would be needed in the decades ahead.
2061 Odyssey Three
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A show-stopping performance at a Guildhall recital suddenly catapulted her into the limelight.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the Greyhound shuddering and jolting, the pilot inches the aircraft across the deck towards the waiting catapult.
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The excavations of this section of the southern city walls also revealed towers and well-protected structures for positioning weapons such as catapults and ballistae built into the wall.
Footprint of Roman Soldier’s Sandal Discovered at Hippos | Impact Lab
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Short-legged hoppers rely on the release of stored energy in a rapid catapult action, Burrows explains in his paper.
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If this is so, far from sidelining the importance of the moral environment, the excursus through determinism will catapult it to the head of the agenda.
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The ending does not convey narrative closure or resolution but catapults us violently back to the beginning.
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Longer-ranged weapons (bows and arrows, catapults, artillery, and, later, guided missiles) allowed armies to fire deadlier rounds from greater distances.
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The MPs' report, out on Tuesday, makes clear the quick decision to adapt the carriers to fly US-made Joint Strike Fighters, taking off by catapult and landing by arrester wires, will increase the planes' cost as well as that of the carriers, but by how much will not be known until December 2012.
MPs warn Royal Navy's carriers will be costly, late, and of limited use
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At the worlds she won gold in the keirin and sprint and catapulted herself into the frontline of British track cyclists.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we try to attack the Canines at a range, then they run at us before we can adjust our bows, ballista, or catapults sights.
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I say that it certainly catapulted her to stardom.
Times, Sunday Times
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But with American symphony orchestras generally in crisis, the San Francisco Symphony has bucked the trend in recent years while catapulting into the ranks of the world's great ensembles.
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In order to still his never ending hunger for utter destruction, this warmongering beast mounted a hell slinging catapult on top of his impenetrable shell.
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Philaenus spumarius, commonly known as a froghopper or spittle bug, is a mere 0.2 inches long, but employs a novel catapult mechanism to launch itself upwards of 28 inches into the air.
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By 2020, the second carrier, the Prince of Wales, should be ready but adapted to take cheaper, catapult-launched JSFs, or French Rafale planes.
Defence cuts don't go deep enough
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With crashed cars in front spinning out of control, he rammed another driver and was catapulted into the air.
The Sun
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It is not unusual for places to be catapulted to stardom thanks to the medium of TV or cinema.
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But what today looks like a masterstroke that has catapulted BarCap from being an also-ran on Wall Street into a credible competitor could easily have turned out disastrously.
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When on campaign the Roman legions used pack animals to transport the ten-man tents used by the legionnaires and spare missiles for the archers, slingers, and catapults.
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During a review of the autumn series Johnson emphasised the leadership qualities of Jonny Wilkinson and Lewis Moody, while Nick Easter's return to full fitness and form has seen his name catapulted into the frame.
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Missiles launched from catapults in the hills above, javelins thrown by Persian soldiers, and arrows from thousands of archers fell like rain on the Macedonians as they tried to clamber up the snow-covered cliffs to get at the defenders.
Alexander the Great
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The country at war catapults journalism into the spotlight like at no other time.
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These numbers catapulted them to the very top of the hit parade and made them household names.
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Kids catapult along bitumen like suckers for punishment.
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These works catapulted him onto the international touring circuit.
Times, Sunday Times
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A show-stopping performance at a Guildhall recital suddenly catapulted her into the limelight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Tartars catapulted bodies infected with plague into Kaffa in the Crimea in 1346 at the end of a three year siege
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The car was catapulted into the air and the mangled wreckage came down in long grass at the side of the track.
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It is believed the children may have used a catapult to fire the stone.
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Two hours of original script and music catapult the audience through the very best and freshest Northern Irish exportable wit.
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The force sliced the roof off the car and catapulted Gail into the road.
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A remarkable series of events catapulted her into the limelight.
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If that is done as a joint venture, they could well find themselves catapulted into the limelight on more than one front.
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a catapultic kind of action
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Watchers loaded crossbows and lifted longbows, ballista crews readied great bolts, catapulters rolled huge stones into their mechanisms.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Catapults pelting fireballs were used with little effect.
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It was used, by armies led by aristocrats against longbows, rifled muskets, and even by a King of Sparta, who, when shown the huge dart from then new catapult weapons exclaimed “woe to the virtuous, ... all valor is now vanquished, and cowards shall rule better men”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare, the CIA, and Charlie Savage’s NYT Article
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By rights we should be wearing caps and shorts with a catapult in the back pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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Witness the world's largest catapult launch a flaming fireball.
The Sun
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The title catapulted the UK duo of Andy Diggle and Jock in the US spotlight, and the pair have been doing very well for themselves ever since.
Pop Crunch
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I hope that these rules can save you my heartache and catapult you to the top of the leaderboard!
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Born in 1882, Hopper spent most of his career as a commercial artist before catapulting to fame at the age of 42.
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So you know nothing of two youths messing about with catapults then?
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Six jet-fighters catapulted from the deck of the carrier.
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When he is forced into battle, he hides inside a cannon, and is catapulted into the tent of the enemy's general staff.
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That blast created huge fireballs and sent vehicles and bodies catapulting through the air.
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Using elements from norteño and banda music (styles specific to northern Mexico), the Nortec Collective created an abstract, electro-Latin hybrid that not only gave them a distinct sound but also catapulted them onto the global scene.
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Being catapulted into the limelight gave her opportunities to fuel her addictions.
The Sun
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We settled in, completed our checks, and taxied to the catapult - tension, run-up, wipeout and lights on.
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The movie catapulted him to international stardom.
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A red warning light glowing on the panel indicated to him that the catapult's compressed air cylinders were under pressure and the safety lock on the supporting trolley had been released.
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Now, why do I think that's not what we mean by the term catapult?
Yon Ill Wind
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I now leave you with a recipe for this dish, which through hard work and culinary ingenuity catapults a cut of gristled beef from its rough-hewn, lowly beginnings to delectable and iconic heights.
Archive 2007-03-01
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In the crash the driver catapulted through the windscreen.
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It is this no-nonsense approach that has catapulted her to the top slot in the premier industrial forum.
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Revaluing the yuan could catapult China's economy past some of the world's biggest.
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There were no catapults for launching aircraft or hangar deck for storage and workshops.
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Everything else at the weekend catapulted me back 30 years as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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When pheasants were worth £2.00 - £3.00 they were targeted by poachers, armed with air rifles and catapults, during the winter months.
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But it does take me a while to work out that the canted pillars with cups on top and pistons on the side are depth-charge catapults.
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She was 75. Ms Ferraro, a Democratic Party congresswoman, was catapulted to national prominence when she became the running mate to the 1984 presidential nominee, Walter Mondale.
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In the 14th century during a siege of Kaffa, which is now the Ukraine, the Tartars catapulted bodies infected with the plague over the town walls.
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The next one on the thrill list is the catapult: you are attached to a rope that is stretched taut and then released.
