How To Use Tomahawk In A Sentence
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On one occasion the men dared Daniel T. Potts to charge a buffalo armed only with a tomahawk.
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In the aftermath, there was a perfectly concave indention in the marble floor where Atomahawk had knelt.
Masked
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Some very brutal things happened - certainly when she was struck on a head by a tomahawk.
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U.S. navy officials said about 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired by U.S. warships deployed in the region.
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The original Native American tap was simply a V-shaped incision made with a tomahawk, and it allowed the sap to flow down into a bowl.
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I was so astounded that I picked up a cue and slapped the red away-and not ten minutes earlier I'd been hanging upside down from a wagon tail trying to avoid being tomahawked!
Isabelle
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I threw them aside and got possession of a tomahawk from one of them.
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Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.”
Between War and Peace
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More than 50, 000 people carrying free foam-rubber tomahawks evacuated the stadium as if there had been a bomb threat.
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A Tomahawk missile launch toward the Vietnam and Persian Gulf side of the mural is symbolic of the refitting of the battleship with modern weapons in the mid-1980s.
Heroes or Villains?
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On display on the ground floor of the well-preserved premises are colourful beads and stones, rolls of fur and skins, tomahawks and axes that Indians traded for bales of cloth, guns and other manufactured goods from Europe.
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Used extensively against Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War, the Tomahawk of today is much smarter, allowing it to dodge unmapped obstacles such as new buildings in its path, and deliver its payload within a few metres of its programmed target.
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A little over 300 years ago, shrieking war cries and flying tomahawks shattered the summer calm in a frontier town of the Massachusetts Province.
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They had been obliged to escape so rapidly that Captain Clark lost his compass [that is, circumferentor] and umbrella, Chaboneau left his gun, with Captain Lewis 'wiping-rod, shot-pouch, and tomahawk, and the Indian woman had just time to grasp her child, before the net in which it lay at her feet was carried down the current.
First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
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On the other hand, the archers of the Algonquins in their wars with the Iroquois, about 1610, used clubs and tomahawks but no spears, no missiles but arrows, and their leather shield was precisely the [Greek: amphibrotae aspis] of Homer, "covering the whole of a man.
Homer and His Age
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The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop.
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The event marked the first launch of the Tactical Tomahawk from an operational submarine launch platform.
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Having now experienced the skill involved in throwing a tomahawk, how Sitting Bull and Little White Dove managed to hunt, kill and bring home the buffalo for dinner is beyond me.
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Steel pots and knives, tomahawks, glass beads, manufactured cloth, guns, and gunpowder gradually replaced traditional products of native manufacture.
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Then, picking up his tomahawk, he blows out the candle and springs into bed.
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They carried medicine bundles, the red sticks of invincibility, and their tomahawks, and they also carried rifles and guns from Panton Leslie and Company.
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Two large streams joined the Tomahawk River approximately one-half mile upstream from the dam.
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He was struck in the face with a tomahawk, the force so great it broke the weapon's handle, before receiving several blows from the taiaha.
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A week later, a larger party of some 200 Maori appeared, this time with spears slung over their backs, and muskets and tomahawks.
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Princeton is chock-full of self-aware boarding school types toilworn from years of being unfairly stereotyped and underestimated, finally endeavoring to tomahawk that stereotype altogether.
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Drawn in the tradition of rock art, these last depict the weapons and utensils necessary for hunting and fighting - spears, shields, boomerangs, digging sticks, sharpening stones and tomahawks.
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The French fought with firearms, while traditional Iroquois weapons were bows and arrows, stone tomahawks, and wooden warclubs.
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The vertical launching system has the capacity to launch 16 Tomahawk submarine launched cruise missiles in a single salvo.
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Their highest instinct of sportsmanship is to catch a man with his back turned and to smite him a cunning blow with a tomahawk that severs the spinal column at the base of the brain.
THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
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Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.”
Between War and Peace
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Munduli is ‘the tomahawk place’ where they used to get stone for tomahawks.
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I'm surprised at how many I remember, though, because they do kind of sear into your mind, this giant jigsaw puzzle of all the words, forming a picture of an America where, first, we were naming the plants and animals and observing the Indians 'customs, whether they were tomahawks or caucuses.
America In So Many Words
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He was arrested for possession of a weapon, the tomahawk, and the report indicated the police officer used force by drawing his service weapon to affect the arrest.
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He was waylayed by Indians, who with arrows and tomahawks speedily put all the men to death, excepting the leader, who was taken captive.
Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky
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The drop earrings, tomahawk, knife and scabbard, and bow and arrows vie for the viewer's attention with the striking claret color of the headdress, which matches both the fringe of the frock coat and one of the shoulder sashes.
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Haynes seems to have included the pendant, separated from the tomahawk, in some pictures simply as another piece of Indian beadwork.
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Later, a coroner found that he had been tomahawked several times, causing instant death.
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The Tomahawk is a long-range subsonic cruise missile that is launched from ships and submarines.
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The party is ambushed by Cherokee Indians who attack with bow and arrow, tomahawks, and a handful of lever action rifles.
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I got a little bloop in the first inning and then just kind of tomahawked something near my eyes (in the fourth)," Surhoff said.
USATODAY.com
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He was struck in the face with a tomahawk, the force so great it broke the weapon's handle, before receiving several blows from the taiaha.
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The flat, featureless terrain between the Persian Gulf and Baghdad forced the United States to create "ingress" routes for Tomahawk missiles for Operation Desert Storm in 1991 that took the missiles over Iran Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey:
ArmsControlWonk
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A week later, a larger party of some 200 Maori appeared, this time with spears slung over their backs, and muskets and tomahawks.
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The four Neville Brothers first worked together backing Mardi Gras Indians for the 1976 album “The Wild Tchoupitoulas” and their set started with the Nevilles joined by current Tchoupitoulas in feathered suits, one carrying a giant sequined tomahawk.
Jazzfest: A Neville Family Homecoming - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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Further north, Tomahawk missiles bombarding the city heralded the beginning of the War.
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The Tomahawk was also enjoying success in aerial combat and several British and Commonwealth pilots became aces while flying the aircraft.
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The injuries were of a type consistent with being inflicted by a hatchet or tomahawk.
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Otoo took a flying leap ashore, dug both hands into the trade goods, and scattered tobacco, beads, tomahawks, knives, and calicoes in all directions.
THE HEATHEN
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I think about my teepee, my tomahawk, my stocky bay horse who is standing even now, a striped blanket thrown over his back, ready to gallop me over the plains, into the red and dusty West.
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Danny Lawson/Associated Press The submarine is armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
British Submarine Floats High and Dry
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The other was a skinny little olive-skinned FBI agent with a face like a tomahawk named Marty Stern.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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She was as good with a gun, knife or tomahawk as any man alive, and though eastern schools had polished her vocabulary and ignited an unquenchable curiosity in her they had done little to tame her.
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Equipped with "a good Queen Anne's musket, plenty of ammunition, a tomahawk, a large cuttoe knife [French, couteau], a Dutch blanket, and no small quantity of jerked beef,
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
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Shortly afterwards they murdered John by bashing in his skull with a tomahawk.
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Putting his performance down to beginner's luck, I stepped up for another go, determined not to lay down my weapons until I had succeeded in making at least one tomahawk stick in the tree trunk.
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In the course of this lavation, it was discovered the extraordinary flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound on the back of the head, by the sharp and ponderous tomahawk of an Indian.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
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The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop.
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While I don't want to stint on my daughter's safety - I have every intention of buying a car that can take a side-on collision from a Tomahawk missile - I am constantly amazed at the precautions we must take these days.
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At noon when we stopped, the men rolled up a barrel of pork on to the deck and one of them, named Cheek bestrided with a tomahawk, crying out "give the word Captain.
Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans
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Jerusalem's wish-list includes nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles, real-time satellite intelligence and funding for missile defence.
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Cost of a single Tomahawk cruise Missile : $ 900, 000.
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The other was a skinny little olive-skinned FBI agent with a face like a tomahawk named Marty Stern.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Sure, he dumps Hellfire missiles from un-manned drones in what seems a Clintonesque version of lobbing Tomahawk missiles from way far away.
So… who did it? | RedState
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Tanaghrisson came forward, tomahawked Jumonville, and tore his brain out of his head, blood gushing.
George Washington’s First War
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Otherwise, his supply unit would be on the receiving end of a simulated bomb or Tomahawk cruise missile.
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To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood.
The Golden Age
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Supporters of the play may think that now 'there are none' to stand up and respond, but this too is a sign of deep and abiding ignorance - the same ignorance that allows them to unabashedly use the name 'Lakota' and stick 'tomahawks' in the helmets of their team.
Agatha Christie Banned in Ohio
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A gash from a tomahawk disfigured his head; the woolly hair was matted with blood.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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But I suppose it was her last chance and the old man would have tomahawked me if I hadn't taken her.
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Now the Tomahawk seems to be giving new meaning to the term guided missile, with an accuracy that the CNN-addicted public has found breathtaking.
The Mind Of A Missile
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Above the clasped hands are a peace pipe and a tomahawk.
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While this was going on the Indian who had been in pursuit of her husband returned with his hands stained with pokeberries, waving his tomahawk with violent gestures as if to convey the belief that he had killed Mr. Daviess.
Woman on the American Frontier
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Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten.
Reprinted Pieces
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I recall being locked in the washhouse by a friend of my elder brother, and at another time, hurling a tomahawk at the same boy.
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Otherwise, his supply unit would be on the receiving end of a simulated bomb or Tomahawk cruise missile.
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The demand for his knives, tomahawks, powder horns, hunting pouches and other hand-crafted items finally grew to the point it became a full time endeavor.
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He tomahawked the pitch and the ball had topspin and dipped into the lower deck and there is Pafko at the 315 sign looking straight up with his right arm braced at the wall and a spate of paper coming down.
Underworld
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Tröeg's newest brew, Nugget Nectar Ale, will take hopheads to nirvana with a heady collection of Nugget, Warrior and Tomahawk hops.
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The submarine is armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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