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Example sentences for "catapult"

Lexicographically close words:
catamenia; catamenial; catamount; catamounts; cataplasm; catapulted; catapults; cataract; cataracts; catarrh
  1. Let steelshod ram or catapult remove This champion of the gate.

  2. The catapult was used for hurling stones, balls, etc.

  3. But that part turned around in one plane, and advanced in another; it was less like anything that existed before than the catapult was like the sling, or the balista was like the cross-bow.

  4. Some of the neatest catapult fruits are those of Teucrium flavum.

  5. Some plants make a sort of catapult to sling or hurl their fruits.

  6. The materials used in the construction of the catapult may be found in almost any junk pile, and the only work required, outside of what can be done at home, is to have a few threads cut on the pieces of pipe.

  7. Gloria, pointing to the catapult between the funnels, where a couple of blue-visaged sailors had taken the covering from a seaplane and were giving it a morning bath.

  8. Moreover, my super-catapult must remain a secret, as I told you a while ago.

  9. And what has a compressed air catapult got to do with the Snowbird?

  10. How did you happen to start working on this catapult idea?

  11. Faster than when shot out of Professor Henderson's catapult the Snowbird winged her way into the northwest.

  12. The professor had rigged his catapult so that he could release the trigger from the flying machine.

  13. The professor was delighted with the working of his catapult and at once made ready to call the attention of the Navy Department to his improvement in the means of launching an airship from the deck of a vessel.

  14. The explosions of the depth-bombs had hurled her to the bottom, where she retained sufficient buoyancy to catapult to the surface.

  15. The navy has also developed a catapult arrangement for launching seaplanes from the decks of war-ships.

  16. With the glasses, he could see a bulky cylinder being handled off the scow and loaded onto the improvised bomb-catapult on the Elmoran's stern.

  17. That infernal-machine hasn't been tested or anything; it might even let go on the catapult when you try to drop it.

  18. Aboard the Elmoran, they gave the bomb a last-minute inspection and checked the catapult and the bomb-sight, and then went up on the bridge.

  19. The Elmoran ran alongside, with her Masai-warrior figure-head and the black cylinder on her catapult aft.

  20. Catapult and ballista upon the eminences outside the walls kept up an unceasing rain of enormous stones which whistled and screamed in the air and shook Jerusalem to its foundations.

  21. Perhaps," the athlete said, "he bought this left-handed catapult thinking he might throw the discus farther than I can throw it.

  22. This catapult was a scientific, simple, and beautiful engine, and very effective in vertical fire at the short ranges of the period.

  23. He seemed very busy, and soon an enormous Turkish catapult made its appearance on the platform, and, aided by the elevation at which it was planted, flung a twenty-pound stone two hundred and forty yards in the air.

  24. The jet-boat catapult deck was quiet, and Connel turned back to the communicator.

  25. Alfie took the guns and walked toward the jet-boat catapult deck.

  26. He was holding a gray, earthy mass, and he threw himself forward to the catapult where it stood idly erect in the wind that beat and whipped at it.

  27. If Towahg could tend the fire," suggested the scientist, "I could fire my little catapult with one hand.

  28. Chet smiled sardonically as he saw Herr Kreiss laboring mightily and alone to rig a catapult that could be turned to face in all directions.

  29. A special catapult had been built to insure each bomber flying speed before it reached the end of the flight deck.

  30. I’d been wondering whether that catapult would boost us into the air or into the sea.

  31. Their plane detectors had probably caught the first hum of Barry’s engines—now multiplied by ten or twelve as the catapult launchings proceeded.

  32. I remember also, when a boy, using a very effective weapon, which I should describe as a catapult gun.

  33. The catapult is also a first-rate weapon in a skilful hand for procuring small birds.

  34. In the early part of the thirteenth century the balista catapult came into vogue once more; it was of the cross-bow type, and at the end of the century was called the espringale and mounted on wheels.

  35. For a fraction of a second his eye had wavered from the gun-sight, and the tiger, with a hoarse growl, rose in his catapult charge.

  36. Una took Dan’s catapult from its secret place, and made ready to meet Lars Porsena’s army stealing through the wind-whitened aspens by the brook.

  37. Dan’s big catapult and the lead bullets that Hobden had made for him were hidden in an old hollow beech-stub on the west of the wood.

  38. He pointed through the door to the foot of a catapult wound up.

  39. The Romans improved on this by concentrating in a catapult the strength of a score of slaves and casting stone cannon balls to the top of the city wall.

  40. He attempted to hide his confusion by wiping his nose; but in producing his handkerchief, he pulled out with it a forked catapult stick and a broken metal pen-holder, which clattered to the ground and had to be picked up again.

  41. The author of the above has, however, been able to construct a catapult which throws a stone of 8 lbs.

  42. Although my largest catapult will throw a stone to a great distance it cannot throw one of nearly the weight it should be able to do, considering the size of its frame, skein of cord, and mechanism.

  43. The method of making the catapult was as follows, omitting unnecessary details.

  44. The essential defect in the catapult Denham had designed was the fact that it practically had to be rebuilt after each use.

  45. He placed it under the solenoid of the catapult after Denham's design, with the springs and rings of metallic ammonium.

  46. And we've got to get there, Reames, because Jacaro will surely try to make use of that catapult principle you worked out.

  47. The catapult was ready, and Tommy prepared his message-carrying projectile.

  48. He sat to work upon the little catapult after Denham's design.

  49. I worked the catapult which flung the globe in the fifth dimension, and his device for returning failed to operate.

  50. Von Holtz had seen the magnetic catapult at work.

  51. That took nearly two months--the globe and the large catapult together.

  52. That couldn't be destroyed or its workings hidden like the ring catapult of Denham's design.

  53. Our job is to fling through the catapult all the stuff we'll need to make another catapult to fling us back again.

  54. And since this device, like the dimensoscope, required only a forty-five degree angle to our known dimensions, instead of a right angle as the other catapult did, Tommy was able to work with ordinary and durable materials.

  55. He would certainly get a catapult first thing when he got home.

  56. Somehow the years when he had not had a catapult seemed all to be wasted years.

  57. With a catapult one might get the squirrel almost at once, with luck: and what a great thing that would be.

  58. What a pity he hadn't had a catapult in those days, he thought.

  59. Freighter Dog Star, Cadet Tom Corbett to Lieutenant Williams," he called, "the air lock is open and the catapult deck is ready to receive you.

  60. In a few moments the two jet boats were braking their jets and drifting to a stop inside the catapult deck of the luxurious liner.

  61. We are approaching your starboard catapult deck.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catapult" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bowl; cast; catapult; chuck; dart; dash; fire; fling; flip; fork; heave; hurl; hurtle; jerk; lance; launch; pass; peg; pelt; pitch; put; rotation; serve; shy; sling; snap; takeoff; throw; tilt; takeoff; throw; tilt