Sentence examples for pointed spikes from inspiring English sources

Note that Jesus does not say he came to bring a dagger, or a wooden club with pointed spikes in it.

In a hail of gunfire — many were armed with Kalashnikovs, a few with knives, and they were backed by three machine guns — they broke down the iron gates, tore off some of its pointed spikes as weapons and smashed the windows of the gatehouse.

Members of the Young Pioneers, the Communist youth movement, were trained to defend against airborne invasion by fixing pointed spikes to treetops to impale descending foreign parachutists.

Hennig and Janensch, while grouping the dermal armour elements into four distinct types, recognized an apparently continuous change of shape among them, shorter and flatter plates at the front gradually merging into longer and more pointed spikes towards the rear, suggesting an uninterrupted distribution along the entire body, in fifteen pairs.

Instead, a pointed spike both twists and accumulates the spun yarn.

Pairs of long, pointed, bony spikes on the end of the tail were probably defensive weapons.

Two pairs of pointed bony spikes were present on the end of the tail.

A coffinlike contraption with pointed steel spikes that Howard Thurston used to impale his assistants has its contemporary counterpart in Copperfield's "table of death" trick.

Swiss aircraft were armed only with carbines and flechettes, ineffective pointed iron spikes that were to be dropped on ground targets.

In "Nude," a woman's anorexic-thin pink body, topped by a mass of brown hair, stands in one-legged profile on a stark lemon-yellow ground, a tiny red tongue like a pointed dart spiking out of her mouth.

Democrats on Capitol Hill and advocates for the unemployed pointed to the spike in joblessness in arguing for the swift extension of federal unemployment insurance.