(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.
Slunk
Definition:
(imp.) of Slink
(p. p.) of Slink
() imp. & p. p. of Slink.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, money has been spent and spirits were high at kick-off, yet a disjointed performance against Crystal Palace headed towards another situation where the new season curtain didn’t so much swish open as collapse unceremoniously as the game slunk into stoppage time all square.
(2) During the protests, he slunk to and from the Wisconsin state capitol via underground tunnels and his legislature has repeatedly revised rules to restrict capitol protests.
(3) And so the political media slunk away, feeling soiled that they'd let Trump manipulate them so easily, and swearing not to be so gullible again.
(4) The fox slunk down, raising its haunches and pressing its chest to the ground.
(5) We may look back on this as the week in which the coalition began to speak again to the British public while the forgetful Labour party slunk back on to the sofa."
(6) Mind you, the worst that can happen is that you end up taking an unscheduled jaunt, as happened to us, where we spotted a leopard snake before he spotted us and slunk away.