spear-shaped

• “Another distinctive candidate is the beech, with its long, spear-shaped buds sprouting out on zig-zagging dark twigs.”

  The Guardian: Plantwatch: Flowers brave the freezing weather

• “Not much ... but enough for an omelet!" she explained, handing me the spear-shaped tips.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “Bottom: scale model for the castle expansion showing spear-shaped design, dormitories, study and meditation rooms, library and ceremonial centers.”

  Simon & Schuster: HITLER’S HOLY RELICS

• “Fantastic as this might be, the spear-shaped image on the Nazi map Troche showed him, the seeming congruity of the hidden vault directly under the castle chapel, and the timing of the Anschluss were evidence that this might actually be the case.”

  Simon & Schuster: HITLER’S HOLY RELICS

• “Visitors to Nürnberg are encouraged to see the spear-shaped map on permanent display in the entrance hallway of the Documents Center at the Nazi Rally Parade Grounds.”

  Simon & Schuster: HITLER’S HOLY RELICS

• “The spear-shaped motif may actually have been derived entirely from the popular Tyr rune employed by Himmler and the Ahnenerbe.”

  Simon & Schuster: HITLER’S HOLY RELICS

• “It was raised upon tall spear-shaped poles, which had the semblance of gold; its curtains were of thick stuff, manufactured of silk, cotton, and gold thread.”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “Not much... but enough for an omelet!" she explained, handing me the spear-shaped tips.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “Only — only — these tall, dark, green pines — spear-shaped and still, with here and there a dead one — ashen pale in the hard afternoon sun, its gaunt, sapless arms almost menacingly outstretched.”

  An American Tragedy

• “And as in the case of all the other lakes seen this day, the banks to the very shore line were sentineled with those same green pines — tall, spear-shaped — their arms widespread like one outside his window here in Lycurgus.”

  An American Tragedy

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