slingshot
Example Sentences
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A teenager draws his slingshot, while fighters holding prayer beads take control of a Soviet tank, and peasants clutching pitchforks face Soviet soldiers.
From Barron's
We ate squirrel tonight, and it reminded me of the days when you and me you and I went hunting with slingshots, back when we were young ones.
From Literature
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Fernando, Osmin and their two younger brothers spent their free time shooting slingshots and riding ATVs around acres of dirt roads and fields that belonged to the company where their parents worked.
They even carried slingshots loaded with very hard acorns, in case they met up with dangerous mail bandits along their postal route.
From Literature
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Two years ago, a girl won at the toy fair for a game in which cats with slingshots fire hairballs that knock down household objects.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.