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Definition of Boomeranging
1. boomerang [v] - See also: boomerang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boomeranging
Literary usage of Boomeranging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"“If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside
boomeranging back upon you.” “Not a bit of it! There's a big difference between ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"boomeranging (Australian), hitting or killing with a boomerang. A slang participle,
coined from the native word boomerang. War shouts and universal ..."
3. Sea-Changes: American foreign policy in a world transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"... wealth is a component of power (even though the uses of economic power are
often constrained or capable of boomeranging), and the fate of labor at home. ..."
4. Communicating Environmentally Sustainable Transport: The Role of Soft Measures by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2004)
"... for sustainable traffic and transportation As for principle 1, the simple
observation that environmental decline is gradually boomeranging on individual ..."
5. Our First Half Million: The Story of Our National Army by Captain X. (1918)
"These ferocious sentries have a way of boomeranging. There was one Brigadier
General at Camp Ayer who had a reputation for sentries throughout all that New ..."
6. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1888)
"Now I have finished my boomeranging, and have only dwelt во long upon the material
side that the solidity and importance of this Northwest might be fully ..."
7. Opals and Agates: Or, Scenes Under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans by Nehemiah Bartley (1892)
"... War shouts, and universal boomeranging ? And thou the bone of all the fierce
contention— The direful spring of broken-nosed dissension— A Helen in the ..."
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