Spikes

Shoes ... many courses ban shoes with spikes, so take care.

Sledgehammers are used in construction demolition, in mining, in driving fence posts into the ground and in driving the spikes that secure the rails to the wooden railway ties.

I fell into the spikes.

Here he saw a pool of water, clear to its very depths. There were no marsh reeds round it, no sterile sedge, no spikes of rushes: it was crystal liquid. The edges of the pool were bordered by fresh turf, and the grass was always green.

Every step she took was, as the witch had warned her beforehand, as if she were treading on sharp knives and spikes, but she bore it gladly.

Earlier today, the porcupine's spikes ruined the eagle's morning hunt.

Under a microscope, coronaviruses look like round blobs surrounded by spikes, much like the corona, or crown, surrounding the sun.

Beware of traffic spikes.

Those spikes under the bridge are overtly hostile architecture.

Rows of cabbages wind beneath passion fruit vines, and tiny red eggplants rub shoulders with the spikes of a rare type of leek.