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Synonyms:
- flings, drives, motivations, pushes, lobs, projects, moves, cants, bumps, butts, forces, entices, nudges, shots, jostles, prods, casts, tosses, shoves, pitches, shoots, bowls, compels, encourages, foments, jogs, heaves, bunts, strikes, prompts, throws, rams, impels, pokes, hurtles, jolts, hurls, flicks, shunts, motivates, pelts, catapults, ferments, jerks, punches, induces, energizes, chucks, inspires, provokes, instigates, urges, stimulates, impulses, goads, fires, triggers, propels, launches, thrusts, magnetizes, knocks, hastens, precipitates
Examples:
- - The following lines written some time before his melancholy end show that he was no stranger to the " slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," and that his self- destruction was not the result of momentary madness, but rather induced by the humiliating torture of ills long borne. - "Curiosities of Impecuniosity", H. G. Somerville
- - Such amusements as they could offer were too simple and old- fashioned for two distinguished persons who held the world in their slings and who were whirling it around their heads with all their might. - "The Tides of Barnegat", F. Hopkinson Smith
- - Slings were then sunk over the mast- heads, and the purchases were hooked on. - "Jack Tier or The Florida Reef", James Fenimore Cooper
