How to Use slingshot in a Sentence

slingshot

noun
  • Goliaths down to size would take more than one slingshot — and likely, many years.
    — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • The corn maze, hayrides, kiddie train and slingshot cost extra.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But just as that selloff was overblown, some fear the price slingshot might be getting out of hand.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Those elements make for quite a slingshot.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Lucas gets brave and holds a slingshot like a weapon.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Mar. 2019
  • The weed in those days arrived on speedboats, through tunnels and even by slingshot.
    — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But even in a solitary hideout, the mind still launched thoughts at itself like a slingshot.
    — Jamie Kreiner, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The Acura slingshots from curve to fate-tempting curve.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
  • But part of his rehab has been getting his mind and spirit back to the place that fired those slingshots.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Most of the victims were unarmed, though a few men appeared to be holding slingshots.
    — Orange County Register, 18 Mar. 2017
  • Ball bearings and a slingshot were recovered in a search of the man’s home, police said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 26 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Each turn was like being in a Hot Wheels car just released from a slingshot on a toy track.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 27 May 2017
  • The two slingshot teams are slow to react and the intruders breeze past Zone 1.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 June 2024
  • To create the giant slingshot, the team strung a cord across the lake and hooked participants to it.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 18 June 2015
  • Police released a second video that shows the Slingshot leaving the scene.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 14 June 2017
  • The maneuver will act like a slingshot, boosting the spacecraft's speed for its journey.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • The noise of fans filling the space slingshots around the room, amorphous, all-encompassing.
    — Rafi Kohan, GQ, 9 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That lasted until 2004, when a high school boy with a slingshot shattered some of the panes.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
  • 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 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 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
  • But remember, David had a slingshot and a rock, and Goliath had a pretty nasty fall.
    — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023

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