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noun

dart

a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dart, each labelled with its topic.

  • The tutorial teaches you to fling a dart at the practice dummy before any real enemy appears.

    Gaming

  • Every village hall on the island keeps a scarred board, and a stray dart has chipped the plaster beside it.

    Travel

  • In the serial's cliffhanger a dart thuds into the doorframe, and the hero ducks behind an overturned cart.

    Movies

  • Late Roman infantry clipped lead-weighted darts inside their shields, and archaeologists still dig them up along the frontier.

    History

  • Biologists fire a hollow dart at the passing whale to collect a skin sample without ever stopping the boat.

    Environment

  • In the mystery the only clue is a single dart missing from the village pub's board, and the vicar notices first.

    Literature

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