Example sentences for: slung

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

  • As a Supreme Being, one of the most powerful forces in the universe, she spends much of the film being slung around, semiconscious, by her male co-star, on whom the awesome responsibility falls to convince her that humans are capable of giving love.

  • Users have been respectfully fussy about employing that distinctive word; it has not been slung around indiscriminately, as quintessential is today.

  • ldren rock babies slung in baskets under the thatched eaves of stone-walled houses. Grain is taken to water-driven mills for grinding, or in some cases is ground between two flat stones or pounded in a mortar by a foot-operated rocker-beam pestle. In recent years numerous

  • Two riders are accommodated at a time, slung on yoked seats on either side of the camel’s neck, so it’s a great adventure for two children.

  • Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .


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