How to Use archer in a Sentence

archer

noun
  • The archers were amazed at how strong the bow was for its size.
    — Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Eighty percent of those bears were taken by archers.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s what to know about the armless archers taking the world by storm.
    — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Imagine being an archer in the Olympics.
    — Christopher Carr, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Sagittarius is a fire sign, and claims the symbol of the archer.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
  • Sagittarius is the archer who defends the good against evil.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • In this game, armies of stick men clash, aided only by a single archer — that’s you.
    — Loresjoberg, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2007
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shift your hands out into the archer position as described above.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2023
  • The archer does not mince words, and neither does Ali when dealing with Rue.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The archer and his wife kept the potion hidden in a safe until someone came to steal it one day.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Their match marked the first time two such archers faced each other at the Paralympics.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Any archer will tell you that the feeling of a bow and arrow in your hands is unlike anything else.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • In recurve bow events, an archer will stand over 70 meters away from their target.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • The archers used long bows, which required a huge amount of rotation of the spine when pulling back on the bowstring.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Really, that makes the mantis shrimp more like a patient archer than a boxer.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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 archer is known for pursuing truth and justice, which is what Rachel desires.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Recurve bows are long, elegant and low-tech, and rely mostly on the strength of the archer.
    — Rona Berg, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • His Olympic career spans five games and five medals, the most of any American archer.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The archer is known to be a magical being that throws zingers, or in this case, spells, at those who frustrate their peace.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Another change was making Gyeon-U an archer.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Slow Time ability can make a so-so archer feel like Legolas.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2023

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