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Recent Examples of javelins
The Tofinu took refuge in the lagoons along the Bight of Benin, a core area of the slave trade, venturing forth in canoes with harpoons, javelins, and swords to fight off raiders from powerful nearby kingdoms.
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Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The flowers and ferns of the Mani hills—purple spears, white arrows, feathery javelins—slowly flatten into the horizon.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The flowers and ferns of the Mani hills—purple spears, white arrows, feathery javelins—slowly flatten into the horizon.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for javelins
Noun
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But the calendar has turned, and the spears now point inward.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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Other sufferers, however, who submitted entries to the 1983 Migraine Art Competition, depicted their pain in drawings and paintings of nails, needles, axes, ice picks, arrows, bolts, jaws, chisels, shivs, guns, red-hot spears, sledgehammers, devils, and long pins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Warhorses charge, lances down, crashing through the tilts as lances break on shields and men topple from their steeds.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Three or four decades ago, the newspaperman was appealingly raffish—at once a bum who drank too much and a knight-errant who charged unafraid at social injustice, succored the weak, and crossed lances with the powerful and arrogant.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Javelins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/javelins. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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