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How to use slingshot in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Slingshot means a Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles. Example: “The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.”

Examples of slingshot by meaning

verbTo use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.

  • The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.

More sentences with slingshot

  • “After being confined for a year, ‘revenge travel’ is essentially a slingshot back into the world.2021 May 19, Caroline Bologna, “'Revenge Travel' Will Be All The Rage Over The Next Few Years”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on…. From the entry revenge travel
  • These include spears, blowguns, rocks, sticks, morning stars, nail bats, punjisticks, torches, bolas, chakras, atlatls, meteor hammers, quarterstaffs, ballistas and slingshots.2011, Allen Smith, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain. From the entry nail bat
  • He's a kid on a trike with a slingshot and a peashooter -- always has been, always will be.1995, Bill Garner, Seriously Now, Pelican Publishing. From the entry self-serious
  • He wanted to trade it for one I had, of the first eight chapters of Leviticus, and a slingshot.1929, Philip Barry, John, A Play, page 17. From the entry prayer box
  • These include a longbow, crossbow, slingshot or shanghai even though it is capable of propelling a projectile by means of an explosive force.2020, Parliament of Singapore, “Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, page 161. From the entry shanghai
  • Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.2019, Jared Green, Santa: My Life and Times […], →ISBN, page 118. From the entry treesap
  • Not quite round – but good enough to be launched from a slingshot and to cause an arrogant lad to misshoot with his bow.2011, Allan Frewin Jones, Destiny's Path. From the entry misshoot
  • The Mets’ lineup, which has not produced a multirun inning since a Game 3 blowout in the Dodgers’ series, will bring their slingshots and go for another knockout.2015 October 17, Tyler Kepner, “Two Aces Down, Two More to Go in the Mets’ Path”, in New York Times. From the entry multirun
  • If Cave Story gets a threemake with Kinect controls and mid-level Angry Birds-style slingshot minigames, we'll lose all faith in the world and actually go live in a cave.2011 February 11, “Cave Story getting 3DS remake, full 3D revamp”, in VG247, retrieved 07 Aug 2024. From the entry threemake

Meaning of slingshot

  1. noun A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
  2. noun A stationary, often triangular object that launches any ball that hits its longest side back at a high force, now usually located above the flipper and between it and the inlane, with one each for both lower flippers.
  3. noun A sling bikini.

Full definition of slingshot

Questions about slingshot in a sentence

How do you use slingshot in a sentence?
Slingshot is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.”
What is a short sentence with slingshot?
“The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.”
What does slingshot mean?
Slingshot means a Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.

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