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.

  • Its blades are its “spears.”

  • Armed with iron spears and shields, they overpowered the Bronze Age weapons of Mycenae and broke down the Peloponnesian bastions.

  • 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.

  • If you want to understand who exactly is being skewered in "Spears" and "Dion," it helps to think of a scene in a better television comedy in which a white-trash country singer makes a similarly anti-Semitic remark.


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