SLING in a Sentence

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For SLING, below is one of 25 sentences:
He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sling
 n.  weapon consisting of a looped strap in which stone is whirled; looped rope or strap for supporting or hoisting something
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  "Only wait a bit, old chap, and I'll give ye a sling for that wounded arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
2  "Mind he don't sling thee with it," cried Starbuck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
3  The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
4  Though not a vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath," returned David, drawing a sling from beneath his parti-colored and uncouth attire, "I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
5  Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
6  He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to the bride.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
7  Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
8  He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as though it did not hurt him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
9  And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
10  THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
11  But, they tore up their handkerchiefs to make fresh bandages, and carefully replaced it in the sling, until we could get to the town and obtain some cooling lotion to put upon it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
12  Even then her tender hand hurled childish darts, and whirled about her head the twisted thong of her sling, and struck down the crane from Strymon or the milk-white swan.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  And, besides, Beatrice Tarleton never willingly permitted anyone, black or white, to hold reins when her arms were out of slings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
15  "Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Example Sentence:
1  He had to keep his broken arm in a sling.
2  Don't just sling your clothes on the floor.
3  If any of the letters aren't interesting just sling them in the bin.
4  I saw him take off his anorak and sling it into the back seat.
5  One advantage that the bow has over the sling is that bows can be used more easily in deep formations of troops.