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slingshot

[ US /ˈsɫɪŋˌʃɑt/ ]
[ UK /slˈɪŋʃɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

How To Use slingshot In A Sentence

  • Navy commandoes slid down to the vessel one by one, yet then the unexpected occurred: The passengers that awaited them on the deck pulled out bats, clubs, and slingshots with glass marbles, assaulting each soldier as he disembarked. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
  • This slingshot trajectory requires the probe to be launched precisely when the planets are in an exact alignment, which if missed would not occur for another 600 years.
  • The Slingshot also features a canvas roof panel.
  • I've hunted successfully with ‘stick’ bows, blowguns, boomerangs, and slingshots.
  • He fixed her arm underneath his as they neared the punchbowl, a small smile on his face, for Katherine seemed as tense as a slingshot.
  • You'll practice rigging, flying on land, launching in Pamlico Sound, and bailing out when a sudden gust slingshots you toward a pier.
  • ” Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread. Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
  • Clearly warfare conducted through massive land armies, battering rams, javelins and slingshots has little technically in common with warfare today.
  • Come morning he sneaks out, whiles his mum's snoring off last night's gin, with a pot for an helmet, a stick for sword, and his trusty old slingshot. Jack Scallywag
  • Both boys have slingshots for weapons, which they fashioned from belts and string.
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