Three sentries have told him they would put a pilum through him if they saw him again.
In the middle of the quay a Roman sentinel stands on guard, pilum in hand, looking out to the lighthouse with strained attention, his left hand shading his eyes.
He hurls his pilum at Apollodorus, who drops expertly on one knee.
The pilumpasses whizzing over his head and falls harmless.
As for you, Apollodorus, you may thank the gods that you are not nailed to the palace door with a pilum for your meddling.
He goes to pick up his pilum and returns to his place with it.
The pilum is a stout wooden shaft 41 feet long, with an iron spit about three feet long fixed in it.
The angon was both in form and in use similar to the pilum of the Romans.
Flaccus stood within twenty paces of her and leveled a pilum at her breast!
The column flung itself out of line and went into the mob with pilum butt or point as the spirit urged.
The pilum could be hurled as a javelin with great effect.
When used at close quarters, the pilum had something of the efficiency of the modern bayonet; and when wielded firmly in both hands, it served to ward off sword-strokes, which fell harmlessly upon the long and strong iron neck of the weapon.
Well had it been for Svein the Jarl if his shield had been ready, for the pilumpassed through him at the waist and he would betray no more Saxons.
A pilumstruck the oars and Ben Ezra struggled hard for his treasure, but he succeeded in retaining it.
Then picked he up a pilum from the hand of a slain legionary and he cast it with his might.
This last he answered with a shout, and he hurled his pilum at that darkness in the water, but the trireme herself responded with a lurch and a yawing as she began to be swept away by the tide.
I saw him swimming bravely till the pilum struck him.
Near to him then were these soldiers, but he saw one of them thrust a pilumblade into the side of Jesus, making a wound from which poured both blood and water.
I have heard that he casteth the pilum even better than do other Romans.
But the legionaries, pilum in hand, had faced the further bulwark, thinking their foe came that way, and not so many of them were at good stations.
The pilum and the broadsword had vanquished the Macedonian spear.
The day of the sword and pilum had given place to that of the lance and bow.
The soldiers of the first century, armed with sword and pilum alone, were destroyed from a distance by the Parthian mounted bowmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
