Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of bowmanSarah and Nyles hit it off, a twilight hookup is interrupted by a mysterious bowman (J.K. Simmons) who shoots Nyles, and a concerned Sarah wanders into a mysterious cave.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020 In 2004, a lone bowman tried to shoot down a coast guard helicopter, and two years later the Sentinelese killed a pair of Indian crab fishermen who drifted ashore.—Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
Hundreds of refugees began rushing the rowboats; once those were filled, the oarsmen, worried about capsizing and afraid of being stranded, began beating people back.
—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2024
Elsewhere in Europe, graphic designer Tormod Fjeld uncovered Bronze Age rock paintings of an animal, a boat with oarsmen and several human figures while hiking in southeastern Norway.
Startled, Carter splashed the rabbit with an oar, prompting it to retreat.
—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
Instead, the risotto is cooked in cylinders the size of oil drums, heated by portable gas burners, and stirred with long wooden paddles that resemble oars.
The explosion aboard the Sultana was followed by the state's second-deadliest steamboat disaster, the destruction of the Miami by fire on the Arkansas River, with a loss of as many as 200 passengers and crewmen.
Share