Example sentences for: spears

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

  • Owing to my being unable to find the full bibliographical information for it in my infallible library cataloguing system, I cannot provide more than the fact that a book published several years ago by Scarecrow Press, Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drinks, by R. A. Spears, was recalled when I saw the Death Dictionary: they are similar only in that they are both thesauruses (in Roget's sense of the word--that is, they contain all sorts of direct and oblique references to the subjects they cover).

  • Those reported to be contemplating plastic surgery include pop star Britney Spears (liposuction, per the Star ), Judge Judy Sheindlin (face lift, breast lift, dermabrasion, also from the Star ), and Camilla Parker Bowles ($50,000 worth of miscellaneous fixes, to help her win the race against Sophie Rhys-Jones to "become the new Princess Diana," says the Globe ). The most talked-about face lift prospect is, of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

  • And his people, the Gungan, are a brave but primitive tribe who throw spears and rocks at the oncoming army in the climactic battle sequence.

  • But that doesn't stop a Star source from speculating that Spears might consider marriage if the prince were to ask.

  • The paper's reporter on the spot, Richard Lloyd Parry, wrote that "warriors carrying spears, rifles and machetes displayed a severed ear and a human arm and offered me lumps of hearts and livers torn from the bodies of ethnic Madurese, who have become the target of a large-scale ethnic purge.


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