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How To Use blowpipe In A Sentence

• There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
• After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming.
• A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
• Walking starkers through the forest, incredibly agile, never get tired, killed a monkey in a tree with a blowpipe.
• ‘We soon discovered iron-smelting debris - fragments of charcoal, slag raw iron and broken blowpipes on the floor of the furnace,’ says Mason.
• It was here that he invented the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, a system for burning a jet of oxygen and hydrogen to produce an intensely hot flame.
• blowpipe" weapons to a SA diplomat in France, three SA diplomats leave France before a deadline set by the French Government. ANC Daily News Briefing
• He told us that the native, when he wishes to catch one alive, goes forth with his blowpipe and arrows tipped with diluted woorali poison. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
• With the ordinary pressure of city gas upon this pipe it was found that the air pump must keep an air pressure of 40 pounds, that the air and gas might mix properly at the branch or fork, so we could get the best combustion and most heat from our "blowpipe," for such it was. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
• Among his inventions were the oxyhydrogen blowpipe, an electric furnace, and a deflagrator, and his research included work on salts.