archer

Example Sentences

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In 2012 he became the first armless archer to qualify for the Paralympics and burst onto the international scene with a silver medal.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2024

As the only female American archer in her Paralympic category, she had to meet a minimum score – shooting 72 arrows, she needed 520 points from 720.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2024

The 17-year-old from Jammu district was born with phocomelia, a rare congenital disorder, making her the world’s first - and only active - female archer to compete without arms.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024

He was, in fact, a skilled archer, and even campaigned to get the bow and arrow recognized as an official weapon of war in Britain.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

He was lying on his stomach in a wood one day, with what sad thoughts nobody knows, when a lady archer came by, who was hunting.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White