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 Translation for 'flaming arrows' from English to French
NOUN   a flaming arrow | flaming arrows
armeshist.mil.
flèches {f.pl} enflammées
flaming arrows
armeshist.mil.
pluie {f} de flèches
rain of arrows
armesmil.
cribler qn./qc. de flèches
to rain arrows on sb./sth.
satané {adj} [fam.]flaming [coll.]
fichu {adj} [fam.] [antépos.]flaming [coll.]
la fronde et les flèches {noun} [fig.] slings­ and arrows [fig.] [pointed often acerbic critical attacks]
filmF
Les Rôdeurs de la plaine
Flaming Star [Don Siegel]
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Usage Examples English
  • Pit's primary weapon is a bow with an unlimited supply of arrows that can be upgraded with three collectable power items: the guard crystal shields Pit from enemies, the flaming arrows hit multiple targets, and the holy bow increases the range of the arrows.
  • The pillagers's leader climbed over the church compound's crude fence and shot flaming arrows at all parts of the church, but the building miraculously did not catch fire.
  • They also used flaming arrows for siege warfare. While spears and bows were the mainstay of the infantry, swords and lances of local or foreign manufacture were the choice weapons of the cavalry.
  • Sofas also used flaming arrows, especially against fortifications that were often little more than thatch or wooden palisades.
  • With its fourteen-inch thick exterior walls made of limestone and its roof covered with clay tiles to prevent fires from flaming arrows it stood as a formidable force against Native Indian attacks.

  • During the filming of the "Unconquered" (1947), nine extras suffered burns from flaming arrows.
  • In 2009, Indian Air Force pilots of ‘Flaming Arrows’ and ‘Cobras’, the two SEPECAT Jaguar Squadrons participated in joint exercises called ‘Eastern Bridge’ alongside the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO)'s force of SEPECAT Jaguars and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons at Thumrait Air Base.
  • Both schools proudly kept the Sachem team name "Sachem Flaming Arrows".
  • There were sunrise practices, along with wind machines to simulate various weather conditions, and flaming arrows that would often singe fingers.
  • Using this distraction and flaming arrows fired from outside the walls, Jamal escapes the castle with Victoria and Knolte's aid.

  • When the army reached the enemy's camp, a knight of the house Jastrzębiec concealed flaming arrows from the night watch and torched the enemy's tents.
  • The simplest flaming arrows had oil- or resin-soaked tows tied just below the arrowhead and were effective against wooden structures.
  • An outer band formed by nut tree orchards prevented enemy armies from shooting masses of flaming arrows into the town.
  • The first church made up of wood and cogon grass as its roof was also established in San Antonio but was eventually burned down by the flaming arrows of marauding Aetas.
  • No. 27 Squadron (Flaming Arrows) IAF is a Ground-Attack and Close Air Support squadron of the Indian Air Force, operating from Gorakhpur AFS, under Central Air Command.

  • Originally as the Arellano Flaming Arrows, the team won the National Student's Championship (NSC) in the 1970s.
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