javelin
Example Sentences
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The Venezuelans practically turned the art of the bat flip into a javelin toss.
It’s like golf, except a player can’t javelin his clubs into a water hazard or pitch a 15-pound orb across six alleys, even if he could.
There was a lion’s roar from the sky, and something like a thin javelin shot past Christopher and stuck into the side of the boat.
From Literature
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Yamamoto picked up his javelins and carried them back to the clubhouse.
From Los Angeles Times
Brits was a world champion javelin thrower in her youth before a road accident curtailed that career.
From BBC
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