Examples
“Palin slings mud, and practices "politics of personal destruction" and then turns around and says, "oh, no I didn't".”
“In the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures, women carry their children in slings for their first few years of life, nursing them through the wildest days of toddlerhood.”
“And someone pointed out to me that it is one of the very few, if not only, books that show babies being carried in slings and being breastfed, as well as many other ways of doing things.”
“Soon two officers carrying their arms in slings made their appearance, and I more fully began to realize that something terrible had taken place.”
At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative
“William Rapetti had been offered eight new straps - called "slings" - to use on the crane tower only moments before the collapse, but turned them down and proceeded with the old slings, DA Robert Morgenthau said, calling the alleged corner-cutting "shocking" and”
“I counted three people with splinted arms in slings (see freezing rain, above), and some poor guy had dropped an ice auger on his foot (imagine a wicked sharp corkscrew-shaped steel blade about 3 feet long, handily topped with a small but heavy gasoline engine.”
“(I’m now signed off for a month & in slings both sides, awaiting the HR PDR Stasi sickness action plan and 12mth freeze on post applications when I return to duty, but thats another story I’m sure) Vasbyt for now, Lt V. on September 23, 2009 at 9: 51 am Angry Rozzer”
“He undipped Leroux's snake-clasp belt, tugged the sword slings free from the body, and strapped the scabbard over his own scabbard.”
“He unclipped Leroux's snake-clasp belt, tugged the sword slings free from the body, and strapped the scabbard over his own scabbard.”
“In later days the tops were armed with light guns, of the sorts known as slings and fowlers; but top-fighting with firearms was dangerous, as the gunners carried lighted matches, and there was always a risk of sparks, from the match, or from the wads, setting fire to the sails.”
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slings’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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vocab
hard word word 4 strong vocab
ostracize, importune, impute, scintillate, mulct, deprecate, procrastinate, rusticate, vegetate, expiate, emulate, gesticulate and 345 more...
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