spear

Example Sentences

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“I would do that, except my ice saw went into the water along with my fishing spear when you slid into the hole.”

From Literature

And on those horses were soldiers dressed in red-and-gold tunics, with spears and swords and bows and arrows.

From Literature

Russia's forces have recently gained limited control over a spear of land to the south of Vovchansk that would bring them closer to this target.

From BBC

Fighters wrap ropes around their punching hand, named "the spear", and block oncoming blows with the other, referred to as the "shield".

From BBC

For almost two decades, the couple have set out to spear sturgeon, the biggest—and perhaps most fiercely protected—fish in the Great Lakes.

From The Wall Street Journal