catapult

Object

• launch: From here you are able to get excellent approach and landing shots, as well as the catapult launches.
• band: The song became an overnight international smash, catapulting the band to instant stardom.
• diary: Until fate insisted that the pair should part company catapulting the diary into a whirlwind of bizarre and slightly random situations.
• publisher: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step Author(s ): Catapult Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.
• issue: The high-profile Make Poverty History campaign has rightly been successful in catapulting the issues up the political agenda.
• group: The bid would catapult the Spanish group from number 5 to number 2 in the world league of operators, excluding China Mobile.

Converse of object

• use: Using either catapults or wooden throwing balls, try to smash the china ware arranged neatly on the racks.
• include: They rarely found resistance to their superior weapons which included powerful catapults and often a number of elephants.
• make: How long will it take to make those full size catapults?

Preposition: into

• limelight: Local businesses in Havering were catapulted into the limelight at the Havering Business Awards on Friday 29 September.
• air: I'm sure I saw people being catapulted into the air but by late afternoon everything was becoming a happy glaze.
• world: Then Holly finds herself catapulted into a strange new world of antenatal classes.
• spotlight: Ordinary men doing humdrum jobs were catapulted into the spotlight.

Modifying Another Word

• forward: Creative Treatment Unrestrained children involved in a crash at 30mph can be catapulted forward at 30 - 60 times their own bodyweight.
• back: The issue was catapulted back onto the council agenda by a motion from the Lib Dem camp demanding an immediate end to clamping.
• then: Crystal is thrust into a past ruled by superstition, then catapulted into a future devastated by biological weapons.
• suddenly: Class struggle is suddenly catapulted onto the front pages.
• also: The bonus also catapulted Jones into second spot in the pay rise league.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: With the election of George Bush and the 9/11 attacks, New Labor's new imperialist strategy was catapulted up the political agenda.

Infinitive complement

• launch: You, with the help of two dinosaurs, use a catapult to launch colored dinosaur eggs at the top of the screen.