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spear
noun as in lance
Example Sentences
He represents something between the pointy end of the spear and City’s personal nuclear warhead.
He also "didn't want to be standing on stage holding a spear for the rest of my life, in wrinkled tights, I just wanted to have a bit of a life".
Jackson no longer has a face, but his hair is speared by a portion of his horse’s upper thigh.
Crucially, the company can be the tip of the spear for its partners to secure contracts and win customers.
That database only tracks "unprovoked" incidents – excluding those potentially encouraged by humans through activities such as spear fishing – but a fuller database of all recorded shark interactions in Australia is maintained by Taronga Conservation Society.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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