The boys had a glimpse of a white-shirted figure that catapulted from the rear of the wrecked vehicle to fall face downward among the weeds.
And she seized Sally's wrist and shook her so that the midget had to cling tightly to the girl's neck to keep from being catapulted to the floor.
How well she knew how they felt, liberated for one blessed afternoon from the bleak corridors of the orphanage, catapulted by someone's generosity into fairyland.
One of the men by the chimney-place must have wasted no time in leaping for me; for at this instant, quite without warning, he catapulted on me through the darkness with the force of a battering-ram.
As it catapulted down upon them it knocked Blenheim off his balance, and he in his unforeseen descent swept the others from their feet.
The forcecatapulted me across the space of the room like a volplane.
A Lodorian leaped upon Dirk's back in an effort to bring him to the ground, but he stooped swiftly forward and his assailant was catapulted over his head into those who were in front of him.
From the basement now and then a scurrying figure catapulted itself out and was lost in the curious crowd that always collects at any time of day or night on a New York street when there is any excitement.
With all the force that he could gather in the narrow hall, Kennedy catapulted himself against it.
From the baggage-car came a trunk catapulted out by a strong arm.
At the end it literally catapulted itself into the water, crashing from the end of the pier.
She had fairly catapulted herself upon him, and he had been decent under the circumstances, he thought.
Before dawn, Captain Higgins ordered anothercatapulted into the sky, to search the surrounding area.
In growing bewilderment, Captain Higgins ordered a plane catapulted into the air, to search the surrounding sea.
He watched the scouting plane catapulted into the air, and the grim thought came into his mind that Noah, sending forth the dove from the ark, must have been in a similar position.
Tense, steely fingers flipped to the knobbed control instruments; the gleaming single-seater scout plane catapulted in a screaming somersault.
As he watched, the two scouts catapulted still higher; became tiny, almost imperceptible dots, visible only in the reflected light of the flares.
But he loved the Holiday name too with a fine, high pride and it was a bitter dose to swallow to have his younger brother "catapulted in disgrace," as Ted himself put it, out of the college which he himself so loved and honored.
I am not very proud of it myself--being catapulted out in disgrace where the rest of you left trailing clouds of glory.
Mac Strann, crouching in the position from which he had catapulted the red-haired man, cast upwards a single glance at the other brother, and then he sprang in.
At the same instant the wolf left the ground with terribly gaping mouth in a spring for the rider; but Dan flattened himself along the shining back of his mount and the wolf catapulted harmlessly past.
Striking on one ski, Reed desperately tried to keep his feet but wascatapulted instead, landing head first in a mound of snow and narrowly missing a rim of spectators.
The stick caught Maltby between the legs and catapulted him.
Instead his body was catapulted backwards, with pieces of broken sticks flying in air, to land heavily some feet away and go skidding across the ice to bring up with a sickening thud against the sideboards.
Crying out, arms and legs flailing, the Chinaman catapulted toward Krenski--and just at the instant Krenski fired!
The brigands were occasionally sending up catapulted light-flares.
The brigands were sending up catapulted light flares.
The force catapulted me across the space across the room like a volplane.
The Major's huge body catapulted through the air and crashed on to a table and its several chairs, sending the occupants spinning.
One following the other, the warships catapultedoff of their launch tracks, rose swiftly into space, and formed up behind mine sweepers Scamp, Varlet and Scalawag.
The mass of synthetic fabric in his arms, Parker catapulted through the opening and into the sea.
Mercedes, in a panic that often comes to people catapulted suddenly and unexpectedly into the water, was grabbing the nearest source of potential safety.
Before Nap's worried eyes, a little swish of white catapulted over the plate.
Julie had ceased screaming the moment she saw she was to be catapulted to an unforeseen doom, and now kept her wits about her to plan an escape.
She was out of Joan's sight now, and by making use of every bush, root, or vine on the slanting rocks, she resisted the force of gravitation enough to slide slowly instead of being catapulted from the heights.
As though driven by the force of a thousand tornadoes the boy felt himself, catapultedout of the tube and into the cold salt water that closed around him like a great wall.
Officer Cleary was catapulted off his feet and crashed into the steel conning tower wall, with an exclamation of pain.
Hippy and Tom at that instant were catapulted into the air, hurled by the gate-lever, and fell into the river below the dam with a splash.
The next act was when Hippy was catapulted from the car door by the heels of the untamed bronco and landed in the street.
Then, instinctively, although it was too late, he threw up one big shoulder to protect his face before he was lifted and hurled crashing back against the wall by the impact of the heavy hoofs that catapulted out of the blackness.
Ogden shouted aloud, without knowing it, a shrill, dismayed cry of warning, as Sutton catapulted from his corner; he shouted and shut his eyes and winced as if that rushing attack had been launched at himself.
They catapulted to safety as the cruiser flamed past, the exhaust splashing over the metal and sending sparks into the cave.
He catapulted out of the burning snapper-boat into space.
Pemberton catapulted out of his berth like a flash.
He was being catapulted down the ray to the mysterious point of brilliance in the Great Red Spot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catapulted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
