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
One, the blowpipe hypothesis, maintains that bony parts of the fish’s mouth clap together into a tube shape through which the water spurts out like peas through a straw.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 2022
Molten glass slowly ballooning from the tip of a blowpipe.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
For the sake of his triple-decker life, Sherry went everywhere the globe-trotting novelist had been, exposing himself to every blowpipe and mosquito-loud interior.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
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
