blowpipe

Example Sentences

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As monsoon rains hammered down on the village of Mushuk Llacta, Peregrina Cenepo, 79, showed off the blowpipe she said her late husband used for hunting.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2022

A study published today in Integrative Organismal Biology comes down on the side of the blowpipe.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2022

Molten glass slowly ballooning from the tip of a blowpipe.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2019

“Andy Warhol used urine on copper in his ‘Oxidation’ paintings, while in 1929 Paul Klee used a blowpipe technique, similar to that used in ancient cave paintings.”

From Architectural Digest • Jun. 11, 2015

On a low stool before one of them sat Rekh the goldsmith, using a pointed blowpipe to direct the heat onto a golden ornament he held carefully in copper tongs.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw