How do you use Longbows in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Longbows meaning
plural of longbow
Using Longbows
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of longbow
- In the example corpus, longbows often appears in combinations such as: longbows and.
Context around Longbows
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Longbows
- In this selection, "longbows" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, smaller, bows, tests, recurve, showed and remained stand out and add context to how "longbows" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and later longbows remained in and england for longbows was such. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "longbows" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with longbows
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Longbows also have a station on each wingtip for an AIM-92 Stinger twin missile pack. (16 words)
Summary Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows. (17 words)
Longbows will last a long time if protected with a water-resistant coating, traditionally of "wax, resin and fine tallow". (20 words)
In modern tests, longbows showed a higher rate of shot than crossbows of the same energy, due to the difficulty of the shooter in handling the mechanical parts for loading in the same time as the bow was pulled. (39 words)
Longbows have been in continuous production and use for sport and for hunting to the present day, but since 1642 they have been a minority interest, and very few have had the high draw weights of the medieval weapons. (39 words)
Sixteenth century and later Longbows remained in use until around the 16th century, when advances in firearms made gunpowder weapons a significant factor in warfare and such units as arquebusiers and grenadiers began appearing. (34 words)
Example sentences (13)
Legal hunting equipment includes shotguns using ammunition loaded with No. 4 shot or smaller, longbows, recurve bows, compound bows, and crossbows.
Members of Brazil's Mura indigenous tribe painted their bodies with orange-red paint and took up longbows and clubs as they headed into the jungle this week, prepared for battle.
Sixty percent of the harvest has been taken using compound bows; 39% by crossbows; and 1% by traditional bows (longbows and recurves).
Along with an assortment of timbers and wooden objects, including several longbows, they brought up several bronze and iron guns, which were sold to the Board of Ordnance for over £220.
Clifford Rogers has argued that while longbows might not have been able to penetrate steel breastplates at Agincourt they could still penetrate the thinner armour on the limbs.
In modern tests, longbows showed a higher rate of shot than crossbows of the same energy, due to the difficulty of the shooter in handling the mechanical parts for loading in the same time as the bow was pulled.
Longbows also have a station on each wingtip for an AIM-92 Stinger twin missile pack.
Longbows have been in continuous production and use for sport and for hunting to the present day, but since 1642 they have been a minority interest, and very few have had the high draw weights of the medieval weapons.
Longbows will last a long time if protected with a water-resistant coating, traditionally of "wax, resin and fine tallow".
Sixteenth century and later Longbows remained in use until around the 16th century, when advances in firearms made gunpowder weapons a significant factor in warfare and such units as arquebusiers and grenadiers began appearing.
Summary Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows.
The trade of yew wood to England for longbows was such that it depleted the stocks of yew over a huge area.
This is often one fluid motion for shooters of recurves and longbows, which tend to vary from archer to archer.
Common combinations with longbows
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: