slingshot

He nudged his wheel right to slingshot his car around Malukas and nose ahead at some 230 mph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

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 ● Jan. 22, 2026

Catapult crimes are not included in official statistics, so BBC Verify sent Freedom of Information requests to police forces in England and Wales, asking for crime records which mentioned the words "catapult" or "slingshot".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

North shot to fame playing Dennis, an impish child who wore baggy overalls with a slingshot in his back pocket and who often made a mess of things for his neighbor George Wilson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025

I’d make Hassan sit on the Wall of Ailing Corn and fire pebbles with his slingshot at the camels’ rears.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Soboroff slingshots the reader from the Palisades fire station to the National Weather Service office, a presidential hotel room, toppled power lines in Altadena, helitankers above leveled streets and Governor Newsom’s emergency operations center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

After the spacecraft slingshots past the Moon, the astronauts begin their four-day journey home, drawn back with the help of the Earth's gravity.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

In 1935, two men armed with slingshots headed to Central Park to hunt.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2024

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 "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan