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Military fatigues are worn like a badge of honor in Jerusalem’s historic center, where young recruits sling automatic weapons over their shoulders.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Standing in front of a crib with her baby in a sling, she gives tips to new mothers who have gotten bills for hospital deliveries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The memorial installed at the college, near Alton, Hampshire, depicts two pupils, one with a sling and and another holding a cane, embracing each other.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Seated in an armchair, dressed in a blue hospital gown, with his left arm in a sling, the security guard said his faith sustained him during the harrowing hours.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

But for a year on and off, I carried my arm in a sling.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

"There will be a lot of dirt and slings thrown around in court between Musk and Altman and that is not a good thing for anyone involved...but Musk has made this personal."

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Sippy cups, strollers, slings, bottles—young children are almost endlessly accessorizable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Perhaps these qualities also prepared her to weather the slings and arrows of international NGO leadership and public speaking.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

NPS rangers and special agents from the Bureau of Land Management worked together to remove the massive amounts of plants and waste by hand and with slings attached to helicopters to airlift them out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

He did not ask my name nor I his, but I had seen his quick eyes go to the firearms in their rubber slings, to the fishing rods pinioned against the wall.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Some looked down at their phones, texting as members of the public slung question after question that Abigail Marquez, general manager of L.A.’s Community Investment Department, largely couldn’t answer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

As the two old men told their stories, a youngster brushed past them, a machete slung over his shoulder.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

The masked assailant’s gun holster, slung between his legs, is what law enforcement terms a universal fit holster and is ill-fitted for a much larger gun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

In the station concourse a young soldier with a Kalashnikov slung across his back was hugging his girlfriend before she left to go west and he went back to his unit.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

There’s a small area upstairs with four chairs slung low to the floor and a square coffee table.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

McBryde calls John “a guitar god” and says TJ’s deep voice “could make your kneecaps come unglued”; she adds that she likes to listen to their records “while I’m doing yard work, slinging a chainsaw.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

With four overseas players introduced this year, fewer emerging players have been given much responsibility during the tournament, but Sunrisers' batters struggled with Phillips' slinging, awkward action.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Repelled, Nancy replies that she will be happily spending her summer slinging pizzas in Provincetown.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

But when second-year quarterback Drake Maye broke out into an improbable MVP contender, he lifted the Patriots to their first AFC East title since Tom Brady was slinging the ball in New England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

He shook him a little, eyeing him curiously before slinging him easily over one shoulder like a burlap sack.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss