sling

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Tigri, grim-faced in body armor, stood next to Samary, slightly comical with his helmet askew and rifle hanging from a sling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Jeffrey’s wife, known as Shambles, operates the puppets from behind the curtain, while wearing their 5-year-old daughter, known as Crumbo, in a sling.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

The British and Irish Lions flanker was injured while scoring Wales' third try, and watched the closing moments of a heavy defeat from the bench with his left arm in a sling.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

Workers cut open each module’s white plastic wrap, slipped the steel cables beneath the floorboards, and attached them to a waiting sling from a 200-foot crane.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2025

Once Washington saw a man with his arm in a sling and grabbed a rake.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis