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Example sentences for "piked"

Lexicographically close words:
pigtails; piis; pika; pikas; pike; pikeman; pikemen; piker; pikers; pikes
  1. What a loss must the empire therefore have sustained, if we had been all piked by the rebels!

  2. The crowd piked a little; but trying to work the shells without a capper is like fishing without a bait.

  3. Me and Andy strolled up one night and piked a dollar or two for sociability.

  4. I piked on over to Danders thinkin' I'd get on a train an' go somewhere; but on my way there I met the foreman o' the E.

  5. A large party of the dragoons of the Imperial Guard were surprised and piked by the Cossacks.

  6. At Prosperous the insurgents attacked and burned the barracks, and piked any of the soldiers who attempted to escape from the flames.

  7. With their piked targets bearing them down.

  8. Killers, however, were numerous, and the lesser piked whale was quite frequent.

  9. The lesser piked whale again appeared in the "leads" close to our "camp" floe, and was easily identified.

  10. Stowe, "the detestable use of piked shoes, tied to the knees with chains of silver gilt; also women used high attire on their heads with piked horns and long training gowns.

  11. Yet, while numerous persons of inferior classes were piked and butchered, the Earl of Kingston was unmolested, and left at liberty on their evacuation of Wexford.

  12. The deputies travelled on foot, with their piked staves in their hands, like pilgrims bound for some place of devotion.

  13. But he couldn't hold a candle to the piked man at Bosworth.

  14. I guess it must feel something splendid to have an ancestor who was piked through the body on Bosworth field, and left there for the birds to eat.

  15. He has a prisoner now whom I want to help if I can--the young man I told you about, who saved me from being piked in the street to-day.

  16. We should certainly have been piked if it had not been for Neal.

  17. And among other there came sir Iohn Carew, with a goodlie band of piked men.

  18. In these daies wooll was dogcheape: for one stone of good wooll of the chosen and piked sort, was sold for thrée shillings, and in Leicester and Kent at some times for two shillings or two and twentie pence.

  19. Each man set his silver in such thing as they liked, And in the meen while the miller had y-piked His bosom full of signys of Canterbury broches.

  20. Every fold of my drapery was searched, and then I was to be piked for not having despatches; it being clear that I was more than a courier, and that my message was too important to be trusted to pen and ink.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.