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  • noun Plural form of sling.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sling.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Parents' fear factor: A short toddle into the danger zone 2009

  • Palin slings mud, and practices "politics of personal destruction" and then turns around and says, "oh, no I didn't".

    Palin: 'The media will never understand' 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2006-07-01 kittenpie 2006

  • 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.

    These Are a Few of My Favourite... Books?! kittenpie 2006

  • 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 1889

  • 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

    NY Post: News 2009

  • 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

    NY Post: News 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2010-01-01 alison 2010

  • (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

    Who Said I Lied? (because I never) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • He undipped Leroux's snake-clasp belt, tugged the sword slings free from the body, and strapped the scabbard over his own scabbard.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

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