Example Sentences

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You may have seen it before: When two identical horizontal lines are capped with arrowheads pointing either inward or outward, the line with inward-facing arrowheads looks longer, even though it’s not.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2025

In the process, they uncovered hoe-spades, spears, knives, arrowheads, chisels, axes and swords made of iron.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

The team used it to successfully haft two flint arrowheads to wooden handles.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2024

Analyses show that the points are most likely arrowheads that, at 74,000 years in age, represent the oldest evidence of archery.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Come end of picking season, he’d wander out to some old lonely place they’d told him about and look for arrowheads and bits of old bones, clamshell, and whatnot.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson