Example sentences for: spears

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

  • On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk — armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones — attacked and captured the local French garrison.

  • Remember the hands, calloused and sunburned,of the Quumran scribes, seated at a cave's mouth,negotiating light that dawn brought backwith the promise of deliverance.Shadow and light, black fireon white fire, the unswerving word,conferring a sacred indifferenceto an urban, merely visual appeal.The caves, dark sockets in a cliff wall,return no one's gaze today,even if they once did seea mountain range of crumpled felt,castiron eagles fixed on approaching spears,and a southbound Jordan feeding the samefluid body, ever moremineral, ever heavier with salt.

  • "A leader of the Makah tribe, inspiring 600 men armed with pointed spears and high-powered rifles to tear into the 'feared enemy,' who was, at that moment, peacefully sorting baleen."

  • The list includes daggers, pipe bombs, spears, and bows and arrows.


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