How to Use archer in a Sentence

archer

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  • Recent Bachelorette star Jenn Tran has been the archer, and she's been the prey.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Sagittarius is a fire sign, and claims the symbol of the archer.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
  • Connect the dots, and there’s Wario as an archer, a snake or a lion.
    — Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • This will become the belly of the bow, which is the side that faces the archer (not the side of the bow facing the target).
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2020
  • Many cheered the news that an arrow shot by one of their archers had hit a policeman in the leg.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The wood of this 50-foot tall tree is prized by archers for arrows — one of its common names is bow wood.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Their match marked the first time two such archers faced each other at the Paralympics.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
  • His Olympic career spans five games and five medals, the most of any American archer.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The Slow Time ability can make a so-so archer feel like Legolas.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2023
  • No story of a heroic local archer; no part of the mountain shaped like a bow.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In this game, armies of stick men clash, aided only by a single archer — that’s you.
    — Loresjoberg, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2007
  • Among the things that the Greeks most feared were the Persian archers, famous for their skill and accuracy.
    — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The elastic cell walls have the tension of an archer’s bow, bent out of shape but held in place by an external force.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • While the tournaments helped him become a good archer, the Ozarks taught him to become a woodsman.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Sagittarius is a fire sign and is symbolized by the archer.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
  • It is thought that the yew was used to create longbows for his royal archers in the lead-up to the Battle of Bannockburn.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • The video shows an archer shooting a deer in a forested area next to Tapert's house, followed by the deer running away down the street.
    — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Amisha is also the first Boone County archer in school history to score 280 or above.
    — Melanie Laughman, Cincinnati.com, 6 Mar. 2020
  • With the core leadership gone, Bullitt Central looks to star archer Adam Dustin to lead the effort.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 19 Apr. 2022
  • There’s a reason target archers prefer a grip of that style, and bowhunters reap the same benefits.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 June 2023
  • But, of course, every kid is an archer, a spy, a merperson, in her own padlocked brain.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The ex-Marine likes to shoot guns (federal agents found 24 in his house); the mosque leader, an archer, bows and arrows.
    — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Sara Scalia is an archer from 3-point range, averaging a 44.6% mark from beyond the arc.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The planet of love says in the sign of the archer until January 7 — and that's seriously good news for us all.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The archer keeps a canonical story-style log of our campaign, which at this point is hundreds of pages long.
    — L.j. Kilgore, Ars Technica, 28 June 2020
  • Sagittarius The archer is another fire sign that Leo pairs well with.
    — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
  • In it, a nude woman archer, bathed in golden light, lies on a balcony aiming at a tortoise.
    — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 6 July 2018
  • The non-resident cost for an archer or crossbow license is $165.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Really, that makes the mantis shrimp more like a patient archer than a boxer.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • For years, Stutzman was the sole armless archer competing in the Paralympic Games.
    — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024

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