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sling

verb as in throw or hang over

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After a long hour of turning wrenches and removing 130 square-headed bolts, the crew set up a rope sling to move the heavy metal cap aside.

If your trivet does not have handles, you can make a sling with a 20-inch piece of aluminum foil, folding it up the long side into a 4-inch wide strip.

Many of us in science suffer the slings and arrows very ungraciously.

His hands, visible in the video, were heavily wrapped in gauze and dangled in slings secured at shoulder height.

If a route has a particularly tricky clip, extend the draw with a longer sling or by linking dog bones together to make it easier to clip from a better or safer stance.

Its award-winning Sling technology allows consumers to take their live and recorded TV with them wherever they want.

My fantasy unravels when she opens the robe, revealing a sling around her broken arm.

The rifle was found nearby, one end of the sling having become detached from the butt.

As Whittaker Chambers remarked in Witness: [W]hen I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else.

In Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton's character fixes lawnmowers but he sounds as if he swallowed one.

At the lesson following he accordingly presented himself with his arm in a sling.

The hurt to her foot was a small matter; but the doctor said she would have to wear her arm in a sling for a time.

He was close to the chateau now, and she noticed that his right arm was bandaged and hanging in a sling.

"Well, I for one don't like her a bit," declared Tilly, perking up the bow ends of the black sling that hung about her neck.

God sends us at this crisis the shepherd David and his sling to do battle with Goliath of Guise.

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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sling, such as: dangle, fling, heave, hoist, hurl, and lob.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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