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
  • Webster recently retired after forty-five years as a tool-and-die-maker, and now spends much of his time searching for arrowheads, some of mankind’s earliest tools.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Runners ran around Kipchoge in an arrowhead formation to reduce wind resistance.
    Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

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