recurve
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Which brings us back to the hero’s mythical recurve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Ana Paula Vázquez, Mexico: Young archer who began her career using the compound bow, but who has since switched to the recurve bow.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
But when he turned 21, a friend gave him a Hungarian recurve horseback bow.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2018
Now she will hope to defend her recurve title.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2016
Each of these prints has three abrupt ending ridges but lacks a recurve; however, in figure 141 a delta is present in addition to the three abrupt ending ridges.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
The flowers of Evergreen amaryllis feature mint green petals, and Wild Amazone has long, recurved petals in a blend of brick-red, maroon, ivory and pale green.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
When Dr. Caron stuck several of the newly gained specimens under a high-powered scanning microscope, he spotted a ribbonlike structure studded with recurved teeth on both sides, like the business end of a chain saw.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
“They’re these harpoon-like things with all these recurved barbs,” Trager said, adding that’s it’s easy to see why the spines are tough to pull out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
Stems ascending; leaves round-ovate, petioled, crenate-toothed; whorls capitate; calyx with 10 recurved teeth, the alternate ones shorter; corolla small, white.—Escaped from gardens into waste places.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
A procumbent, prostrate or sometimes creeping shrub; scale-like leaves acute; berry on short recurved peduncles, 3–5´´ in diameter.—Rocky banks, borders of swamps, etc.,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
De Kooning's characteristically hooked, recurving line takes on an invigorating speed, charging and skidding through the dense paint, slits open with the promise of spatial depth, only to shut again.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the delta is located in areas B, the recurving ridge is not counted.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
Annual, 1–3° high; bracts narrowly oblong, their slender awned tips spreading or recurving; calyx-teeth slender, at length usually spreading; corolla white or pinkish, not spotted.—Neb. to Tex.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
An imaginary line drawn between the two deltas must touch or cross at least one of the recurving ridges within the inner pattern area.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
Twice, and yet once again, the young woman and her helpless burden were swept around the circle, each time drawing a little nearer to the recurving eddy under the fall.
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
