Here they saw many handsome boats, slung from the cross beams or hauled up on a slip, but none in the water; and the place had an unused and a deserted air.
Selecting one, the bureaucrat slung it over his shoulders to carry home.
The authors noted its use had almost doubled in the previous 70 years and mockingly quoted passages in which ugly, unrelated nouns were slung together with chains of conjunctions.
Behind Whitlock, Mo Farah, Sir Bradley Wiggins and the embarrassment of riches slung around their necks are some less famous deeds by some less storied people, including the prime minister of an extravagantly hated government more than 20 years ago.
He slung my arm around his shoulder and lifted me.
" Two Talibs with Kalashnikovs slung across their shoulders helped the blindfolded man from the first truck and two others helped the burqa-clad woman.
A handful of sternfaced young men sat on their haunches in the cab, Kalashnikovs slung on their shoulders.
and slung it on his back like a bundle, put the tinderbox in his pocket, and walked off to the nearest town.
I reached across my seat, slung my arm around him, pulled him close.
Inside sat framed family pictures: an old, grainy photo of my grandfather and King Nadir Shah taken in 1931, two years before the king's assassination; they are standing over a dead deer, dressed in knee-high boots, rifles slung over their shoulders.
Two of the bars, slung in a rope's end, made a good load for a grown man--one that he was glad to walk slowly with.
Silver had two guns slung about him--one before and one behind--besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat.
and slung it on his back like a bundle, put the tinderbox in his pocket, and walked off to the nearest town.
