pikes
- plural of pike.
Example Sentences
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She added: “Probably done 100 Yurchenko double pikes, and the first one and then the last one I’ve done, they all feel the same — scary.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
Arriving in the Tibetan quarter of Chengdu, where tens of thousands of Tibetans live under the state’s watchful gaze, officers with pikes and batons stand sentry while police lights flash red and blue.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The collections of the Smithsonian contain, for instance, pikes from John Brown’s failed slave rebellion in the South in 1859.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
Before every event, players serving as “reeves” — a sort of referee — conduct a weapons check to make sure the swords, pikes, arrows and other implements comply with strict safety requirements.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018
Swords, swordbreakers, axes, bows, pikes, hunting daggers, maces, spears, throwing knives, wooden staves...While she generally preferred the stealth of a dagger, she was familiar with every weapon here.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
