tomahawk
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Branded tomahawk steaks and “The Future is Public” cocktails will be served to guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Sonny Baker has just started to tell a story about a bike he bought from someone on Facebook Marketplace and a tomahawk steak when the video call goes dead.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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
He held a tomahawk in one hand and a hand of tobacco in the other.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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It displays a cartoon avatar of Jenkins, nicknamed Skullet, and a logo depicting crossed tomahawks below a silhouette of the Capitol building.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
The Braves did not place their usual foam tomahawks on seats for Game 2 of that series, a decision the franchise said was a result of Helsley’s comments.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
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
He placed us in the forests; he gave us tomahawks and knives with which to fight our enemies; and bows and arrows to shoot the bear and deer.
From The Frontiersmen by Gustave Aimard
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
First, Nene viciously tomahawked a dunk over Gobert to net the Wizards’ first points.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
We want not to see water anatomized; the Alps may be tomahawked and scalped by geologists, yet may they be sorry painters.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
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
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 Helen Cody Wetmore
“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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Florence Fenwick Miller
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