How To Use bowstring In A Sentence
- They are worn to protect the arm from the bowstring as it moves forward after the release.
- The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
- At the end of that period I had recovered, and all that remained from the effects of the bowstring was a slight wrinkling of the skin from distension, and the deep blue mark round my neck which I have just shown to your highness. The Pacha of Many Tales
- Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firmaun" appointed him to the vacant pachalik. The Pacha of Many Tales
- He placed it perfectly in the bow drawing the bowstring.
- For example, bowstrings were easily split, spear shafts easily broken and use of the arquebus often dictated by the weather.
- Slip the loop of the bowstring over the nock and down the limb of the bow and tie the free end of the string to the other nock using a timber hitch, bowline or similar non-stressing knot.
- Her body went as taut as a bowstring.
- The Viking's huge muscles were nearly as taut as the bowstring itself as he strained in bringing it back into firing position.
- The centre lever is depressed to set the trigger, then the rope is looped around the bowstring and locked into the jaw.
