Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of sling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
sling . - a metal ball of small size, with a string attached, used by ruffians for striking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sling .
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Examples
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Lean from sickness, her skin mangy with the dry scales of the disease called bukua, she was tied hand and foot and, like a pig, slung from a stout pole that rested on the shoulders of the bearers, who intended to dine off of her.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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A hunter with his rifle slung is nothing more than a hiker with a stick of steel on his back.
Use Pepper Spray Instead of Guns to Stop a Charging Grizzly 2008
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He laid languidly in one of his numerous 'matrimonio' sized hammocks, which slung from the supports of the palapa.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - cita with the shady 'lady' on Acapulco 2007
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He laid languidly in one of his numerous 'matrimonio' sized hammocks, which slung from the supports of the palapa.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - cita with the shady 'lady' on Acapulco 2007
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He laid languidly in one of his numerous 'matrimonio' sized hammocks, which slung from the supports of the palapa.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - cita with the shady 'lady' on Acapulco 2007
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The only situations in which your rifle should be slung is when you have no intention of shooting anything, or when you have to use both hands for something.
Sling Shot 2004
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Lean from sickness, her skin mangy with the dry scales of the disease called bukua, she was tied hand and foot and, like a pig, slung from a stout pole that rested on the shoulders of the bearers, who intended to dine off of her.
Chapter 4 1917
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I don 'want him to get a spite ag'inst me,' f I c'n help it; he looks to me like one o 'them kind that kerries what they call slung-shot,' n 'hits ye on the side o' th 'head with 'em so suddin y' never know what hurts ye. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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I don 'want him to get a spite ag'inst me,' f I c'n help it; he looks to me like one o 'them kind that kerries what they call slung-shot,' n 'hits ye on the side o' th 'head with 'em so suddin y' never know what hurts ye. "
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I don 'want him to get a spite ag'inst me,' f I c'n help it; he looks to me like one o 'them kind that kerries what they call slung-shot,' n 'hits ye on the side o' th 'head with 'em so suddin y' never know what hurts ye. "
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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