Sentence examples for a barbed arrowhead from inspiring English sources

A barbed arrowhead was found in the skeleton's spine which could also explain Richard III's death in battle.

The skeleton seems to have suffered a traumatic blow to the head, which cleaved the back of his cranium, and a barbed arrowhead was found embedded between the vertebrae.

A barbed arrowhead was also found in the skeleton's spine.

The archaeologist, Jo Appleby, noted signature characteristics that pointed strongly to Richard: a deformed spine, what she has described as a mortal battlefield wound in the back of the skull from a bladed instrument and a barbed metal arrowhead found between two upper vertebrae.

The male skeleton's skull was cleaved with a blade, and a barbed metal arrowhead was lodged among the vertebrae of the upper back.

This image gallery from the Wiltshire Museum shows a flint hand axe and stone mace along with a polished axe, dagger and barbed arrowheads.

The corpse showed signs of scoliosis and injuries — trauma to the skull, a barbed-iron arrowhead wedged in the vertebrae of the upper back — consistent with those Richard sustained at the Battle of Bosworth Field, where he died, in 1485.

That's a barbed, but generous judgment.

Even casual comments take on a barbed ability to wound.

We climbed over a barbed wire fence.

For all his geniality, Cranston has a barbed side.