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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.
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.
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
Moana comes with a flower crown, an oar, a conch shell, and her signature necklace.
The sole survivor The wreck claimed the lives of 28 of its 29 crewman, leaving only Dennis Hale alive.
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Nov. 2024
Almost half of the dead were crewmen from the battleship USS Arizona, which sank within minutes after a bomb struck its forward magazine, igniting more than a million pounds of ammunition.
Jenna Prestininzi,
Detroit Free Press,
5 Dec. 2024
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