javelin
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Her personal best form continued in the long jump on Saturday morning with a leap of 6.55m, and a throw of 50.16m in the javelin took her overall total to 5,812 points.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“My goal was to for the gold first, then the mark,” said Massey, who will continue throwing at Oregon and may even compete in hammer and javelin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
For the anti-tank training, the troops use a javelin missile simulator to practise destroying a tank - the Anglians said a real javelin missile cost £250,000.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
The Venezuelans practically turned the art of the bat flip into a javelin toss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Jason kept fighting, spinning his javelin - slicing through ghosts, knocking ghouls off their feet.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Yamamoto picked up his javelins and carried them back to the clubhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Perhaps harassed by Neanderthals throwing wooden javelins, the angle of the injury shows the lion was lying on its side when the killing blow came.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
They came loaded with balls of cotton, parrots, javelins, and other things too numerous to mention; these they exchanged for whatever we chose to give them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
“But javelins in swamps don’t always work out.”
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2017
I saw spears, javelins, and banners—the trappings of an army.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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