Bowie knife
Example Sentences
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Clay’s outspokenness put his life at constant risk; he traveled with a set of pistols and a Bowie knife strapped to his chest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
“I was expecting him to blaze up on a Harley with a Bowie knife in his boot.”
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025
The man who called himself Lincoln’s bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, tried to give the president-elect a revolver and Bowie knife for protection.
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2021
Such materials went into the Trade Center Bowie knife, made to commemorate lives lost to the 9/11 attacks.
From Washington Times • Aug. 3, 2015
He spied the ascot beneath the flight jacket, the cartridge belt criss-crossing his torso, the Bowie knife, and the crowning touch, a World War I Von Richtofen flying cap.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
