1.   So he uses a slingshot to fire apples at the pears, but he misses every time.

2.   Palestinian children occasionally hurled rocks and used slingshots.

3.   Police quickly moved in and the students retreated back to their campus and used slingshots to pelt police in the street.

4.   Protesters used slingshots to fire ball-bearings and marbles.

5.   Some of the stone throwers took up positions on rooftops while others used slingshots.

6.   Some participants had become nasty, throwing rocks or using slingshots to launch bleach-spiked water balloons.

7.   They clashed with Turkish-Cypriot troops, and demonstrators using slingshots from both sides hurled stones at each other in a running battle.