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Recent Examples of bowie knife
The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.
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Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
There’s a reason bowie knives were developed to be fighting knives.
—Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
Aside from their build, bowie knives serve multiple outdoor purposes.
—Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
Adams recklessly tossed aside his rifle and jumped down a bank to chase the wolf with his bowie knife.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018
During a mob scene, Thumbelina stabs one of the movie’s villains with a bowie knife before jumping on a table and mowing down the police with a machine gun.
—Matthew Sedacca, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
There’s a reason bowie knives were developed to be fighting knives.
—Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
Aside from their build, bowie knives serve multiple outdoor purposes.
—Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
Adams recklessly tossed aside his rifle and jumped down a bank to chase the wolf with his bowie knife.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018
During a mob scene, Thumbelina stabs one of the movie’s villains with a bowie knife before jumping on a table and mowing down the police with a machine gun.
—Matthew Sedacca, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bowie knife
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The sentiment felt like a dagger, striking with unbearable pain.Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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Rohan Nadkarni That feels like a possible first-half dagger.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
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Three Humvees, more than a dozen bayonets and other items were taken from a storage warehouse and parking lot at the Army Reserve Center in Tustin this week, and the thieves remain at large, police announced Friday.City News Service, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2025
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In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding the explosives was to prod the ground with a pointed stick or bayonet.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2025
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Well, some customers like to break it apart in other ways or slice it at home by knife.Miami Herald File, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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After the bar closes, Jimenez prepares to kill Tommy with a knife.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 Jan. 2025
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At the Williamsburg International Airport in Virginia, a pocketknife was found shoved inside someone’s shoe.Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
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After all, what says hardcore quite like amputating your own fingertip with a pocketknife?Sarah Goodman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Almost a year after his death, one of his former friends – the one who’d kept a machete beside his bed – was still bitterly haunted.Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
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That same year, 16 people were killed after a Uyghur attacked dozens of Chinese police officers with a dump truck and machetes.Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
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And of course, killer boots: thigh-high stilettos, and the aforementioned cowboy kind.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2025
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Sky-high stilettos meet gorgeous, expansive vistas in this glossy ode to excess.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Led by vocalist Christina Michelle’s hair-raising screams, Deep Sage mangles everything in its path with thick basslines and switchblade guitars until the floor is bloodied but the air, at long last, is cleansed.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
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Videos shared online as far back as May 2022 show Ukrainian troops using Switchblade suicide drones, which have wings that pop out like a switchblade and are made by U.S. defense contractor AeroVironment, to target Russian forces.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
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“Bowie knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bowie%20knife. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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