6 sentences with 'spears'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spears and other words derived from it.
• « However, they were still very effective against hapless peasants with spears, so it seems that when rival Mesopotamian city-states fought actual battles, they consisted largely of massive groups of chariots carrying archers who shot at each other. »
• « Philip II also reorganised the infantry into a new type of phalanx that used longer spears than the traditional hoplites; »
• « Instead, squads of pikemen (i.e. soldiers fighting with long spears called pikes) supplemented by soldiers wielding primitive muskets neutralised the effectiveness of the knights. »
• « Hunting and fishing is utopian on an occasion of flight or attack as there is no time to make spears and harpoons. »
• « Think, for example, of a primitive society. Its people, faced with the need for food, built spears to hunt animals; experience taught them how to throw them, who could throw them, and so on. The same is true of all human productions. »