He received four slugsin his body, as will be seen in the sequel.
I'm not allowed to use ball, you must know, 'cause Betty thinks that balls kill an' slugs only wound!
But slugs ain't bad shots at a close range, when aimed low.
It was the pistol known as the "burp gun," that sprayed slugs like a hose.
Scotty asked, "We'll let the police see if the slugs from your machine pistol don't match those in the hotel wall.
They eat many snails, too, breaking the shells against big stones; and they hunt for slugs now and then in the moist ditch by the roadway.
Squirrels hibernate; moles sleep away the dead of winter; frogs retire to the depths of ponds; slugs bury themselves in the soil; dormice doze in well-lined crannies among the boles of hazels.
In this pan, he explains, the fresh slugs are roasted before being buried in the sand for twenty-four hours.
We found that worthy man very happy as he had succeeded in putting two slugs into a chamois-buck, to which the coup de grâce had been given by Don Serafin lower down.
This, he averred, he would certainly have killed had he been loaded with slugs (postas) instead of ball.
I see you know all about him, and Big Tom Bruce is the one that was shot, and didn't tell them that he had a handful ofslugs in his breast till after the Indian town is taken, and then he falls down, dying.
A dismal hole, Gregory,” says I, holding up the lanthorn and gazing round me at the damp walls, up the chiselled face of which crawled a multitude of slugs and snails that left a slimy silver track behind them.
But that’s naught, toads andslugs is common enough, Master Dick.
While we were looking over the slugs together the pearl buyer put his hand in his pocket and drew out a five-dollar bill which he unrolled, exposing a pearl of about six grains, well shaped, but of rather dead luster.
It happened that the pearl buyer had accumulated some twenty-eight ounces of slugs and a number of pearls and was leaving on the same train with the author, who shared his seat with him.
An involuntary turn, the slightest imaginable, set the heavy barrel of her weapon strongly against the blow, partly stopping it, and then the gaping muzzle spat its load of balls and slugs with a bellow that awoke the drowsy old village.
The leadenslugs were on the point of leaping forth.
Yes, I did, Father Beret, and I got a load of slugsin my shoulder for it from that brave girl's pistol.
All six of the slugs that were identified immediately previous to this point were removed from the gun, identified as Commission Exhibit 143, by me.
Did you have anything to do with identifying either the slugs that were eventually removed from Officer Tippit's body, or the pistol?
What is the fact as to whether or not all of these slugs were removed from this gun which has been marked as Exhibit 143?
Pallas in 1778, who took them to be slugsand described them under the name Limax lanceolatus.
Slugs also and insects help to form the bird’s diet.
All cherry-growers are familiar with the small, dark green, slimy slugs which feed on the surface of the leaves of the cherry, possibly more common on the foliage of pears, eating out the soft tissues and leaving but the skeleton of the leaf.
If the slugs are numerous the tree may be defoliated or if the leaves remain the foliage looks as if scorched.
It was reported that he bore a charmed life, that he was invulnerable alike to lead bullets and to steel blades, and even the silver slugs which his enemies had fashioned for him had hitherto failed to find their billet in his body.
Galley matter to be made up into pages of a uniform number of lines should be first marked off with slips of card or slugs at the places where the matter breaks into pages.
Strips of wood, called reglet, are sometimes used as substitutes for leads and slugs in large sizes.
Leads and slugs are also made of brass, in sizes, lengths, and heights similar to the soft metal varieties.
Each man carried big, powerful flashlights, and the three entered the mine shaft and walked across the seething slugs into the bowels of the earth.
The floor of the mine was covered with a grey slush, in which were seething white masses of slugs weaving in the slime.
The shell is usually closed by an operculum; but as the animal advances in age the shell sometimes disappears altogether, or is reduced to a mere shelly plate, as is the case with the land and marine slugs and sea lemons.
Passing now to the true gasteropods, we shall first consider the Opisthobranchs, which are commonly known as Sea Slugs and Sea Lemons.
The sea slugs are principally animal feeders, subsisting on small crustaceans, other molluscs, &c.
No, Freddy, that boy had a perfect chance to riddle us both with slugs so that it would be a waste of time for anybody to pick us up, but he didn't!
Me, if I had a few slugs left to slap at a train, I start up at the engine and rake the whole works.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slugs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
