javelin
Example Sentences
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His answer came as a squirrel plucked another barb from the porcupine’s back and held it like a javelin, poised to spear through Clare’s undead heart.
From Literature
The Venezuelans practically turned the art of the bat flip into a javelin toss.
It’s like golf, except a player can’t javelin his clubs into a water hazard or pitch a 15-pound orb across six alleys, even if he could.
There was a lion’s roar from the sky, and something like a thin javelin shot past Christopher and stuck into the side of the boat.
From Literature
Yamamoto picked up his javelins and carried them back to the clubhouse.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
