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Slinger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who slings, or uses a sling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The comedian Rob Auton, 30, has seen off competition from acclaimed pun-slingers including Tim Vine and Gary Delaney to pick up TV channel Dave's annual award for one-liners at the fringe.
  • (2) The mud-slingers: the most shocking presidential attack ads ever aired Read more Regardless, with much of the art focused on sex and politics, it seems particularly apt in an election in which women are accusing the Republican nominee of inappropriate sexual conduct .
  • (3) HPLC analysis showed that this increase in immunoreactivity resulted from the hydrolysis of six apolar compounds that cochromatographed with the ecdysteroid esters previously shown to be present in newly laid oothecae (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and A6; A. J. Slinger, L. N. Dinan, and R. E. Isaac (1986).
  • (4) And from what I see of the London office, where a desktop PC lies mouldering in the corner like a relic from another era, they're generally hip, young Mac slingers who hold their office meetings on Skype and are as likely to be collaborating on a Google document with a colleague in Brazil for a campaign in Portugal as they are to be working on a UK issue with the person sitting next to them.
  • (5) For actor Jonathan Slinger, an RSC stalwart currently playing Willy Wonka in the West End, the relaxed performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a revelation.
  • (6) Michael Shaw Huddersfield The EU must show itself capable of much more than standing by as thousands drown at its maritime border John Slinger • Will someone please explain the moral difference between the politicians who closed Britain’s door to Jews fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany and those who now want to shut out people trying to escape from the disaster that has engulfed them in North Africa and the Middle East?
  • (7) Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger.
  • (8) That is a crucial point and one that is often overlooked by other burger slingers.
  • (9) Seemingly incidental characters include the married-socialite-turned-lesbian-communist Ms Dede Halcyon-Day, the terrifyingly normal Norman Neal Williams and Jon Fielding, fiction's hottest speculum-slinger.
  • (10) John Slinger (Labour party member from 1991 to September 2016) Chair of Pragmatic Radicalism • While Polly Toynbee correctly identifies the mathematical implausibility of Labour winning the next election alone ( 27 September ), that does not mean the Tories cannot be beaten.
  • (11) In his later years, he came to despise what he saw as tawdry dealings in overweight punch slingers with little of the skill that he had prized.
  • (12) John Slinger Rugby, Warwickshire • Perhaps a mass drop of leaflets in relevant languages over all the countries concerned, explaining the perils that await them, with graphic photos, might act as a deterrent.
  • (13) Ten days after the death of Trayvon Martin, Bo Morrison, 20, was shot dead by a homeowner in Slinger, Wisconsin, when he sought refuge on the man’s porch after an underage party was busted by police.
  • (14) It might sound a handy line for promoting the movie, but Garfield's delivery is deadpan, and he did grow up a bona fide Spider-Man nut, famously dressing up as the red and blue web-slinger for his first Halloween party.
  • (15) "I am invited to submit a script, and I whip off a word-slinger's delight wherein young take on old as a jukebox is tested in the Rovers' Return."

Stinger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Common problems--muscle cramps, burners (or stingers), and ankle and shoulder injuries--can be managed effectively with certain basic techniques.
  • (2) Based on the clinical course and positive patch tests, it was concluded that the patient developed a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to the sea urchin's stinger.
  • (3) "For killstreaks, one of the things we noticed when we've watched players is that they'll spend a lot of time just running and then being killed by something from the sky, or running around looking up, trying to fire their stinger missile at something above and not paying attention to what's in the game around them.
  • (4) History of previous corresponding sensations from contact with cosmetic products was significantly more common in stingers than in non-stingers (p less than 0.001); other factors, such as dermatologic history, sensitivity to ultraviolet light or skin dryness had no characteristic patterns.
  • (5) The stinger of the wasp was examined from the zoological aspect and is compared with that of the honeybee and hornet.
  • (6) Protesters have also been fired on with 60-calibre Stinger rubber bullets and what appear to be 40mm wooden baton rounds .
  • (7) Since Stinger's appointment in March 2005 he has struggled to break the company out of its "silo" organisation that has prevented co-ordination between different divisions.
  • (8) In the objective, immediate non-immunologic contact urticaria tests with sorbic acid and benzoic acid, the stingers developed significantly more erythema to 0.5% sorbic acid (p less than 0.05) and to 1% benzoic acid (p less than 0.02).
  • (9) "Some were seized by the Soviets, and Stingers were acquired by the Iranians within a year."
  • (10) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
  • (11) Soon, the proxy war against Gaddafi was underway, and "Charlie Chad" and his CIA counterpart were there, ferrying Habré C141 Starlifters full of weapons, eventually including a dozen Stinger missiles, the coveted and deadly shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapon system lusted after by terrorists and aspirant armies worldwide.
  • (12) It will inevitably be a custodial sentence.” The facts of the case were not given in court, but the Guardian understands that on New Year’s Eve Sheppard placed a home-made stinger made of nails and plywood across a road close to Concorde House in Emersons Green, a police base to the east of the city centre.
  • (13) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
  • (14) 1% sorbic acid also induced more edema in stingers (p less than 0.02).
  • (15) The same protein has, however, been reported to be sorted by an indirect pathway through transcytosis from the basolateral to the apical cell surface in hepatocytes (Bartles, J.R., Feracci, H., M., Stinger, B., and Hubbard, A.L.
  • (16) "Great midfield, solid defense, but absolutely no chance of scoring when they should..." 8.12pm BST 26 min: Jorge Jesus, managing Benfica while on secondment from 1980s American MOR rock group called Boston or Journey or Commute or something, is starting to look anxious, probably because Chelsea are starting to grind their way forward and Oscar has just got their first shot on target, a decent stinger from 20 yards.
  • (17) Stingers and non-stingers reacted similarly to open, cumulative SLS irritation as measured with transepidermal water loss.
  • (18) It's the element of surprise – a hidden stinger in a cosy chat, something unusually personal from the grand inquisitor – that works.
  • (19) Emma Sheppard, who has been convicted in Bristol of damaging police cars with a stinger device.
  • (20) Most American weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, were channelled by the Pakistanis to the Hezb-i-Islami faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

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