tomahawk
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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
Scott Baird, of the storied Starlite bar atop the Beacon Grand Hotel in San Francisco, suggests you think of premium cocktails as “the tomahawk rib-eye of the cocktail world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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
Force of Nature Grass Fed Venison Tomahawk Steak – A venison tomahawk is smaller than the beef version you may know, but its flavor is spectacular — leaner, more complex and full of character.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
He blocked another shot, hit a jumper from beyond three-point range, drove the lane and finished with this sick tomahawk over two guys.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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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
The nation needs windmills, 360s, and ferocious tomahawks more than ever before.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2020
Here was held the great treaty of 1764; and here England made that alliance with the tribes which turned their tomahawks against the "American rebels."
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Frank H. Severance
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
When his forward progress was halted by Perkins’s mighty right arm to his chest, Griffin tomahawked the ball into the basket.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
In nine cases out of ten the warriors would have tomahawked him, and this he soon realized, thankful at the same time that he had been spared, for the present, at least.
From The Lords of the Wild A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
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
“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
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
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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