Example Sentences

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Store workers blow giant colorful bubbles and throw boomerangs around, while jingles from electric toys and whirls from their wheels mingle with the chatter of shoppers’ conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

"We have turnovers, liners, hooks, boomerangs, knuckles. And they all do different things," Koch said in an interview with the NFL in 2016.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

Once he did, Evans installed an electric-blue Formica countertop with boomerangs and retro-style appliances that she bought from Home Depot, finishing the look with a set of swivel counter stools with wood laminate backs.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021

While it succeeded in bringing a game to the streaming service, a few too many choices resulted in either dead-ends or storytelling boomerangs that ultimately put the viewer on rails.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2020

Inexplicably, Clyde started flinging magazines across the room like he was throwing boomerangs.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman