(1) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(2) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
(3) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
(4) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
(5) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
(6) Ibrahimovic won a penalty five minutes before half-time but Peter Jehle flung himself to his right to save the spot-kick.
(7) Nolito played Fàbregas in just after the restart and he was felled by Oleksandr Kucher but Pyatov flung out an arm to send the midfielder’s spot kick over the bar.
(8) To see the doctor, governor, probation officer … cell doors are flung open with regularity.
(9) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(10) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
(11) Rosberg flung it back, without the flicker of a smile.
(12) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
(13) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
(14) Many of the inmates in the far-flung penal colonies in which they were incarcerated were serving time for drug-related crimes.
(15) Butsuch comments remind me of those flung at my father, whose family was killed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
(16) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
(17) Hodgson, his side trailing to Gareth Bale’s long-range, first-half free-kick, had boldly flung on Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at the interval with both strikers scoring as his side kickstarted their campaign by vaulting to the top of the group.
(18) There is chance the words "47%" are not going to be flung at him this time.
(19) The first participants, who must all be aged under 24, are expected to travel to far-flung communities in the developing world to take part in projects in the months before Christmas.
(20) This had been such a grind, a test of patience as much as quality, against admirably resolute opponents who flung down a four-man barrier of centre-halves supplemented by workaholic wingers who plugged the full-back areas whenever they were denied the ball.
Slung
Definition:
(imp.) of Sling
(p. p.) of Sling
() imp. & p. p. of Sling.
Example Sentences:
(1) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(2) When I arrived, I couldn’t make sense of the sprawling, low-slung place at all.
(3) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(4) "They slandered us, slung mud at us and shut us out of all the news media – the TV channels of the corrupt elite – and we beat them," the 55-year-old leader said as the votes came in.
(5) Wearing blue scrubs, she had a large Barack Obama shopping bag slung over her shoulder with the president's beaming portrait beneath the word "Hope".
(6) What does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean?
(7) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
(9) Left ventricular function was assessed during volume loading with blood before and after cutting the chordae tendineae by means of electrocautery applied via flexible wires slung around the chordae and exteriorized through the left ventricular wall.
(10) The lights go down, the dry ice swirls, Rossi stands with his back to the stage, Parfitt is coiled, his guitar slung low at groin level.
(11) I walked the three blocks home with my backpack slung as low as possible, so that no one walking behind me could see what had happened or could think I had peed myself.
(12) In the film, he travels the land and seashore, his painter’s kit slung over one shoulder.
(13) This act of terror has not achieved its goal in this sense,” said an unshaven Navalny, with a sports bag slung over his shoulder, after leaving the Moscow detention centre.
(14) Located beneath the knee in each walking leg, the cockroach subgenual organ is a thin, fan-shaped flap of tissue slung across the dorsal blood space of the tibia at right angles to the leg's long axis.
(15) "He is not here," says a rebel guard: glazed eyes, rifle slung over ill-fitting uniform, pitiably young.
(16) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
(17) Some of the men sat closest to the edge and sported bows and arrows for self-defence, while others had machete sheaths slung across their backs.
(18) Come the end of November, I won’t have a roof.” As a single parent, Steve won’t be the only one slung out.
(19) When he wrote that "Redstarts flew from tree to tree, taking the line a slack rope would take slung between them; economy in flight is what makes it graceful", it is the economy of the prose which makes the observation graceful.
(20) 4km from Carvalhal and Amália beaches A group of low-slung white buildings surrounded by the empty expanses of the Alentejo, Cerca do Sul has seven rooms, including one family room, all opening on to the terrace.