sling

[ UK /slˈɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɪŋ/ ]

NOUN

a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice
a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel
a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released
bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck
a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

VERB

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How To Use sling In A Sentence

The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
Both are equipped with studs for sling swivels.
On the platform were representatives of the UK Independence Party, Conservatives, Lib-Dems, Labour and the Greens, and the usual mud-slinging followed.
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
There was nothing but mud-slinging, exaggerations, outright lies and immature namecalling.
College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
She pulled her sling out of her pack and gathered three or four appropriately sized stones and set out to find her dinner.
There aren't many films that metaphorically made ... jdogzz: love the first three cant wait till the forth one comes out my e-mail is: [email protected] alew: It ` s not ryan gosling in the last photo - it ` s the the director of the film Film Junk
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