Example sentences for: spears

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

  • With respect to current controversy over SNL /Christina Ricci/Britney Spears, you may recall an almost identical line from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman , back in its first season.

  • spears (anti-missile system) the cell phone (bad schools?)

  • Perhaps a bit more interesting is the intelligence that, according to The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink , by Richard A. Spears (Scarecrow Press, 1986), there are 624 terms for marijuana , 151 for P.C.P.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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