as in swinging
to place on an elevated point without support from below
sling a hammock between the trees
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as in throwing
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
slinging stones at the fence post
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Recent Examples of slinging
Pat Saperstein, Variety, 25 May 2026
Shows end and fame fades, but the beef stands will stay slinging.
—Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Read more about how Burns went from slinging barbeque ribs to cherry pies, from The Star’s Jenna Thompson.
—Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
In addition, the action includes top-tier spider combat and awesome web-slinging and web-gliding traversal abilities.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
Warren Buffett made some of his first cash by slinging The Washington Post.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
In recent years, Ed Sheeran slipped behind the counter, gamely slinging dogs and taking his fair share of abuse from the staff.
—Jimmy Jellinek, SPIN, 27 Apr. 2026
Makar took a pass from partner Devon Toews at the left point, then danced across the top of the zone before slinging a shot through traffic for his first goal of the postseason.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
Owner Coss Marte spent six years in the early aughts locked up for slinging drugs on the same block.
—Ali Bauman, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
Cage plays 1930s private investigator Ben Reilly who is also a web-slinging superhero.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 25 May 2026
Shows end and fame fades, but the beef stands will stay slinging.
—Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Read more about how Burns went from slinging barbeque ribs to cherry pies, from The Star’s Jenna Thompson.
—Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
In addition, the action includes top-tier spider combat and awesome web-slinging and web-gliding traversal abilities.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
Warren Buffett made some of his first cash by slinging The Washington Post.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
In recent years, Ed Sheeran slipped behind the counter, gamely slinging dogs and taking his fair share of abuse from the staff.
—Jimmy Jellinek, SPIN, 27 Apr. 2026
Makar took a pass from partner Devon Toews at the left point, then danced across the top of the zone before slinging a shot through traffic for his first goal of the postseason.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
Owner Coss Marte spent six years in the early aughts locked up for slinging drugs on the same block.
—Ali Bauman, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slinging
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Two nights after throwing 21 pitches over 1⅔ innings, Johnson threw 124 pitches over 7⅓ strong innings to beat the host Aggies (41-14) before a crowd of 6,934.—
Jose de Jesus Ortiz,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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Houser grinded through a pair of long innings that ate into his pitch count, throwing 37 pitches in the first inning and 27 more pitches in the third inning.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
31 May 2026
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There really was broccoli hanging from the dugout fence for Mississippi State during their first-ever appearance at the Women’s College World Series on Friday.—
Molly Keshin,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Global spending on agentic AI is growing exponentially, and the low-hanging use cases are largely harvested by now.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Wallen's onstage throwing of the piano this week took place two years after he was arrested in Nashville for hurling a chair off the roof of a bar in Nashville in April 2024.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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Romeo Briones was the starting pitcher for Helix, hurling the first 4 2/3 innings before Williams rode to the rescue.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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The sculpture, built as part of Kansas City’s annual Parade of Hearts, was made to be nearly indestructible — safe from children dangling from the bee’s antennas or climbing on the structure.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
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As first reported by the Daily News, a dangling panel from an Amtrak Acela train sparked an electrical fire earlier this month that knocked out service to the station for two days.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2026
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The video appears to show a person standing with a snow shovel outside the house, near the street, then retreating toward the house and tossing the shovel into the yard.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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Toast 1 cup raw walnuts on a rimmed baking sheet, tossing halfway through, until golden brown, 8–10 minutes.—
Kamal Mouzawak,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 May 2026
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Another video showed Chonkers reemerging from the water, flinging himself onto a dock full of smaller sea lions who, save for one apparently brave animal, fled at the sight and reverberations of their massive neighbor.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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Sam instead proposes that the performer dance to it without music, a prompt that is followed by Anne Hathaway flinging herself across the room, dragging her body across the floor in a hypnotic spectacle that seems to convey struggle, possession, and loss of control.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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