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How to use ballistae in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ballistae? Here are some examples.

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Using this momentary respite, I wrenched the sword blade from the ballistae.
With the ballistae, however, they hoped to launch flaming spears into the sails of their enemy, slowing them down.
Mom and Dad hurried to the hallway, leaving my brother and me to engage in covert anarchy, spoons engaged as shiny ballistae.
The two types of siege weapons were catapults and ballistae, with catapults being the predecessor.
Others set up massive ballistae some distance from the defenders, and began pelting them with heavy bolts of solid iron.
Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels.
It was more of a fortress, with ballistae and cannons ruling the top, and bridges, which connected the five towers.
The siege weapons also became so effective that the castles were no longer effective enough to stop the onslaught brought on by the catapults and ballistae.
Infantry, archers, ballistae, or catapults can all be placed on ships.
Jim Rodda had previously designed a number of 3D-printable items of a medieval persuasion, including functional miniature ballistae and catapults for tabletop gaming.
Examples from Classical Literature
In this way the blows of ballistae and the force of fires will be repelled by them.
I have now given those symmetrical proportions of ballistae and catapults which I thought most useful.
Their ballistae threw stones, weighing a hundred weight, a distance of a quarter of a mile.
It is said that from the ballistae stones weighing one hundred pounds could be sent half a mile.
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