Example sentences for: slings

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

  • For Jacob Weisberg's critical review of Brock's Hillary book (Weisberg says Brock "slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village") click here.

  • Loops of rope or tape, called slings , fitted with karabiners or krabs `metal snaplinks,' are used for running belays or runners . These are placed on the rock face during the ascent and used to prevent the leader from falling too far.

  • 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.

  • The slings and arrows of the spoken language may prove even more perfidious in writing.

  • At the first, Brock, under the guise of fairness, slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village.


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