How to Use slingshot in a Sentence

slingshot

noun

• The meek David slayed the mighty Goliath with a slingshot.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• The fan had a little slingshot in his form but banked it in.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2022
• Something’s gotta slingshot the night into the next phase.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 3 July 2018
• The SkyCoaster -- one of those arched, slingshot swings -- claims to be the world’s largest such rides.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2019
• All of a sudden, David had a bazooka instead of a slingshot.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 June 2023
• Downstairs, the security forces used a slingshot and the butt of a gun to break through the doors.
  — Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• The sport and sport + dial allows for three modes, and once revs hit about 3,000 rpm the car slingshots ahead.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
• The brother then grabbed another rock, placed it in his slingshot and struck the man again, this time in the chest.
  — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 15 May 2023
• But just as that selloff was overblown, some fear the price slingshot might be getting out of hand.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
• That lasted until 2004, when a high school boy with a slingshot shattered some of the panes.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, Lucas gets brave and holds a slingshot like a weapon.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Mar. 2019
• Groups mostly of young men advanced to the border and hurled rocks with slingshots from behind the clouds of smoke.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
• But even in a solitary hideout, the mind still launched thoughts at itself like a slingshot.
  — Jamie Kreiner, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
• The hole did not appear to be large enough for a firearm, but instead for a pellet from a slingshot or a BB gun.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Goliaths down to size would take more than one slingshot — and likely, many years.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• The weed in those days arrived on speedboats, through tunnels and even by slingshot.
  — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2021
• Arrows flew here, there through the air; blood gushed and flowed; Darts, stones, and javelins were hurled by ballistae and slingshots.
  — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
• But this is the NFL, and the guns of August have been known to turn into slingshots once the real fighting begins.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• Club members used a slingshot to get a line up in one tree, then found another tree to anchor the end of it.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• That way the Orion can use the moon’s gravity as a slingshot to send it on course for its four-day return trip.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
• Bourdais used a big run to catch Dixon and pass him on the inside of Turn 1 and then slingshot past another car.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• The style of racing Sunday was markedly different from the slingshot dicing of the past six years, at least through the first two-thirds of the race.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 May 2018
• On the seat was a slingshot and several 9 mm rounds were in Dolan’s pocket, police said.
  — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
• The same amount of pedal travel that transformed the R1T into a slingshot on the road now barely nudges the truck forward.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2021
• The noise of fans filling the space slingshots around the room, amorphous, all-encompassing.
  — Rafi Kohan, GQ, 9 Aug. 2017
• But remember, David had a slingshot and a rock, and Goliath had a pretty nasty fall.
  — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
• Debise let Beach past on the 10th of 11 laps, knowing his best chance to win would be a slingshot move on the uphill run to start-finish line.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2018
• What happens to Goliath after the slingshot takes him down?
  — Joe Toreno, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• But against a skilled practitioner of the slingshot, this was akin in the modern world to bringing knives to a gunfight.
  — John Maxfield, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2017
• The farm features two corn mazes, pony rides, a barrel train ride, a pumpkin slingshot and pedal cars.
  — Philip Potempa, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017

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