[ UK /d‍ʒˈævɪlˌɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒævəɫən, ˈdʒævəɫɪn, ˈdʒævɫən, ˈdʒævɫɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible
  2. a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events
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How To Use javelin In A Sentence

  • Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
  • The ‘amentum’ was the thong, or strap of leather, with which the lance, or javelin, was fastened, in order to draw it back when thrown.] [Footnote 36: _Not used to bear. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
  • Collared peccaries, or javelinas, may be the agents most responsible for moving leguminous tree seeds back upstream.
  • The character and costume of an archer, or of a spear-man, were ascribed to such as roamed through Hades, to pierce the dead with arrows or with javelins. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
  • She used to call the javelin happy which he touched, and the reins happy which he was pressing with his hand. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
  • She achieved a throw of sixty metres in the javelin event.
  • The Royal Artillery (the drop-shorts to us infanteers) has been using a ground-to-air missile called Javelin for donkeys years.
  • The scytalas was like "a staff;" the acontias, like "a javelin;" the dipsas was a thirsty snake. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
  • Kenneth is a field athlete and competes nationally and internationally in javelin, shot and discus.
  • A set of javelins, five of them, from a springal, struck from their guides by a forward-springing plank, raked the interior wall of the starboard rowing frame. Guardsman Of Gor
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