Example sentences for: pikes

How can you use “pikes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In medieval England the severed heads of those who crossed the throne were regularly stuck on pikes and mounted in public places, London Bridge being a choice site.

  • The standards they followed were the heads and even gashed bodies of six beautiful little children, with their intestines protruding from their bellies, and every one of these were on pikes dripping with blood.

  • Only a little farther south, around Langdale Pikes, for example, the terrain is formed of volcanic rock; much younger and more dramatic in appearance, these mountains have rough crags and sharper peaks.


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