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Example sentences for: slings

How can you use “slings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The slings and arrows of the spoken language may prove even more perfidious in writing.
We, the American public, tireless in our pursuit of the costless benefit, loath to accept the randomly aimed slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, ever ready to shift the blame for our own laziness or carelessness to someone else--preferably someone with deep pockets.
At the first, Brock, under the guise of fairness, slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village.
It helps that in The Spy Who Shagged Me , Dr. Evil has soared in stature, becoming nearly as heroic a throwback as Austin himself--the supervillain seeming far more vulnerable to the slings and arrows of ridicule than the superhero.
For Jacob Weisberg's critical review of Brock's Hillary book (Weisberg says Brock "slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village") click here.