How to Use slings and arrows in a Sentence

slings and arrows

plural noun

• Djokovic has been the target of many slings and arrows in recent months.
  — oregonlive, 20 Aug. 2020
• But the big tree will have to fend off the slings and arrows of its urban location for a while longer.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• Ideally, home and family should be a safe harbor from the slings and arrows of the rest of the world.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
• Your daughter’s lifestyle will not protect her from the slings and arrows of life.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2018
• And can Valerie survive the slings and arrows launched by mean-girl debutantes?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• Nora suffers the slings and arrows of Roxanne, who calls her a coward.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• The Knights had wrapped the bronze warrior in duct tape from helmet to sandals to protect him from the slings and arrows and paint balloons of pranksters from across town.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
• Rask is paid $7 million to suffer the slings and arrows, no matter how outrageous the fortune.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Strange is too smart, worldly, and compact to get bogged down in overly self-conscious musings about the slings and arrows of his budding fame.
  — Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2022
• Practicing self-care will give you more energy to deal with all the little slings and arrows of our health-care system.
  — Sandy Fernández, Redbook, 11 Apr. 2018
• Both shows have also suffered the predictable slings and arrows from the sorts of fans, or quasi-fans, who think that only white actors ought to be cast in such stories.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
• Anyone can adapt a Broadway smash; much nobler to adapt a one-man show about turning 30 and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous eye-rolls.
  — Vulture, 7 Feb. 2022
• The physical pain Hernandez felt was nothing compared to the slings and arrows that dented her pride.
  — Walter Villa, miamiherald, 5 Oct. 2017
• While just a quarter of young birds survive the deadly gantlet of the Alaskan bog, some 90 percent of adults survive the slings and arrows of their southward migration.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Reason can’t make sense of the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune, but humor—sometimes—can soften the blows.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 May 2020
• But perhaps none of the slings and arrows flung at Jackson has provoked as much outrage as the one the state House of Representatives loosed earlier this month.
  — Michael Wines, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Neither a vindictive God nor the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune stood in the way of the human pursuit of satisfaction.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• The choice to pursue this lonely path, despite the slings and arrows, is what should serve as inspiration through whatever Covid-19 -- or the next pandemic -- may bring us.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
• Ada suffers the slings and arrows of mental torture more than the average protagonist.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018
• Adams, who in 1797 succeeded Washington as the young nation’s chief executive, soon found himself on the receiving end of the slings and arrows.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2020
• Rugged Monster Mats are there to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous seaside adventure, while the sill plates are similarly ruggedized.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 11 Jan. 2018
• The show deals with the emergence of a seemingly omnipotent gossip columnists, and maneuvers the slings and arrows of Regency-era high society.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2022
• Republicans in the House as well as the Senate closed ranks behind him, and there was little sign that the slings and arrows of Democrats did anything to hurt the president’s standing among his fervent supporters around the country.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
• Pink may be known for her feats of derring-do, but there’s no fearlessness like withstanding the slings and arrows of being a reasonably outspoken public figure.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
• In the United States, the military is subordinate to the civil power, the civil power is accountable to the citizenry, and both must suffer their slings and arrows as a result.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
• Zellweger doesn’t naturally look or sound like Garland, but her empathy, which perhaps comes from her being no stranger to Hollywood’s slings and arrows, makes her Judy sing.
  — Amy Nicholson, Town & Country, 25 Sep. 2019
• So yes, be specific about the behavior that bothers you, and stay in the moment (don’t launch into an encyclopedic recitation of previous slings and arrows).
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
• So yes, be specific about the behavior that bothers you, and stay in the moment (don't launch into an encyclopedic recitation of previous slings and arrows).
  — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021
• Swan Song is a tremendously tender love letter to someone who survived so many of the slings and arrows that accompanied being an openly gay man in a small, conservative area.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• Rather everything is wrapped in the gauze of pop culture allusions, protecting it from the slings and arrows critics would usually release at such a film, and connecting it to the pop reference heavy Chucky films of 1998 and after.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2019

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024