tomahawk
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There will be a “carvery countdown” with tomahawk steak bones branded with JPMorgan and SpaceX logos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Hundreds of pounds of caviar, black truffle, sushi and tomahawk steak have been shipped to Hollywood for the traditional lavish Oscars after-party this Sunday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
For eight breathtaking seasons, LeBron James has poured his soul into pleasing a passionate fan base such that he still fills Crypto.com Arena with joy and light and tomahawk dunks at age 41.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
A copy of her post, which showed a tomahawk steak, red wine and a salad, was shared with the Eastern Daily Press.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
He blocked another shot, hit a jumper from beyond three-point range, drove the lane and finished with this sick tomahawk over two guys.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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Following Helsley's complaint, the Braves stopped distributing the red foam tomahawks used by fans doing the chop during the series.
From Fox News ● Oct. 28, 2021
“He seems so full of joy. He’s big, and I like to imagine he does stuff to make himself bigger, but not gym stuff … more like throwing tomahawks or fighting sharks,” she says.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2020
The nation needs windmills, 360s, and ferocious tomahawks more than ever before.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2020
Before a playoff game this month, the Atlanta Braves discontinued handing fans foam tomahawks after a player for a rival team, a member of the Cherokee Nation, complained that he found it “disrespectful.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
They had tomahawks, knives, and pieces of iron and copper, which, as they alleged, they had procured from the Sasquesahannocks, a mighty people dwelling two days' journey distant on the borders of the Susquehanna.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
Gallen left another pitch up in the fourth and Albies tomahawked it out to right, tying it at 3.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
"He got the outs. Calhoun just tomahawked that ball. It’s why it’s the big leagues."
From Fox News ● Apr. 25, 2021
I’m telling you, it cut a yard, and it was tomahawked.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 24, 2020
When his forward progress was halted by Perkins’s mighty right arm to his chest, Griffin tomahawked the ball into the basket.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
It will not help her very greatly to be criticised as if she were being tomahawked.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
Battles with Nick Faldo, tomahawking a club into a lake, claiming Tiger Woods intentionally tried to distract him mid-swing?
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 6, 2019
Next time up the floor, Griffin attacked the basket, intent on tomahawking a one-handed dunk over Nene.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2015
Croker openly said that he expected to lose his pension very shortly, and, being wishful to make himself a literary position before that event happened, he had begun by "tomahawking Miss Martineau."
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
“Fool!” exclaimed Magadar, scarce able to refrain from tomahawking the brave in his wrath—“launch the canoes and give chase.”
From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
His head throbbed from the tomahawking, but his wits were still in working order, and when asked by Satanta where he had been, he replied that he had been out searching for "whoa-haws."
From Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister by Wetmore, Helen Cody
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