How to Use arrowhead in a Sentence
arrowhead
noun-
On the White House grounds, bits of pottery and arrowhead points were found in the 1970s.
— Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021 -
Smear the pitch on the hot arrowhead and insert it into the notch on the arrow shaft.
— Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2020 -
The arrowheads found in the cave were of different sizes.
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023 -
But that was Dan—and all of us kids looked hard just the same: for the arrowheads, for the Lenape coins, for the hidden chest of John Ringo’s gold.
— Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023 -
For example, heat up the pitch, the arrowhead, and the arrow shaft.
— Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2020 -
The shadow of the bridge over the water is angled, so that the bright section looks like an arrowhead.
— Teju Cole, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017 -
Conversely, the arrowheads were used by the Jewish forces in their defense of the city.
— Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 25 May 2017 -
The arrowhead is made out of iron, while the wooden arrow that once held it has long dissolved.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2019 -
The red, gold and white threads are clean and crisp all the way to the interlocking K and C within the arrowhead logo.
— Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Near the Iron Age shoe and along the trails in and out of the pass, Pilø and his colleagues found a 2,000-year-old arrowhead made of reindeer antler and etched with a pair of zigzag lines.
— Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022 -
There’s a castle there and a mountain shaped like an arrowhead.
— Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2017 -
In September, Ernst Hagen was out for a walk near his cabin and came across the 1,000-year-old arrowhead in the snow.
— Fox News, 15 Oct. 2019 -
Edge nails form a point, but the point is not as long as a stiletto shape or as aggressive as an arrowhead.
— Kristi Kellogg, Allure, 20 July 2022 -
The husband ice skated and dug up arrowheads on the property as a boy.
— Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity.com, 19 May 2017 -
However, the cat had a very serious infection that had spread from the tip of the arrowhead, the group said.
— Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020 -
Then researchers found an arrowhead in his shoulder, bruises on his head and chest, and a deep cut on his hand.
— Brandon Keim, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2009 -
The packaging all points toward the Chiefs without a sign of the team’s arrowhead logo.
— The Kansas City Star and, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024 -
Its arrowhead clasp was drawn from a statue of Diana, the goddess of hunters, drawing a bow and arrow.
— Bryan West, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Ferns, shrimp plants, arrowhead vine, and 'Aquamarine' pilea spill over the outer planters.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 June 2023 -
A plant native to South America that grows from a tuber, or compressed stem, in the shape of a large red, pink, white or green arrowhead.
— Gunnar Johnson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 June 2017 -
Sifting through water and sand, little ones might find unique rocks, gems, fool’s gold, and even arrowheads.
— Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018 -
The arrowhead is still embedded in his left shoulder and was not found until 2001.
— Jessie Yeung, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019 -
Key finds have ranged from an early 19th century spoon to a Stone Age arrowhead.
— Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 21 Jan. 2023 -
Rowton, who goes to games wearing an arrowhead on his head and a cape signed by players, won’t be hugging strangers this year.
— Author: Heather Hollingsworth and Cut Anderson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2021 -
Classic showing: Speaking of the Classic 8, Arrowhead wasn’t the only team that ran well at state.
— Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2017 -
Many of these items are added to boxes of arrowheads or line shelves with other artifacts.
— Clark Fair, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017 -
Amell shared a photo of the simple new ink — an outline of an arrowhead, to the side of his elbow, and pointing upwards — on Sunday.
— Jolie Lash, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2021 -
Archaeologists aren’t sure what the arrowhead would have been used for during the Bronze Age.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023 -
Towering above all of these was a full-sized model of a sleek warplane with sprawling wings and a nose like a bulbous arrowhead.
— The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019 -
There is, for instance, an arrowhead found by Thoreau on Edmund Hosmer’s farm in Concord.
— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 8 May 2024
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