harpoon

A harpoon gun from "Jaws," a jacket worn by "The Terminator," and a "Star Wars" lightsaber hilt and C-3PO head are among the eye-catching items to be sold at auction next month.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

A red flag for sure, but it’s not long before Nina is practically loading a harpoon gun with red flags and firing them at her new housemaid, left and right.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

They got their name because they were the “right” whales to harpoon — their bodies floated for easy recovery after they were killed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

A stone’s throw from a few lounging sea lions, rusting storage tanks, boilers and beached harpoon boats lay testament to Deception Island’s past as a Norwegian whaling station.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Now the bad time is coming and I do not even have the harpoon.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Crew members plowed through ice, buzzed vessels attempting to dump nuclear waste, dodged harpoons, and spent almost a week in a Siberian prison.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Proposed approaches include snatching debris with a robotic arm, scooping it up with giant nets, attracting it with magnets and spearing it with harpoons.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025

“It’s like harpoons to their heart every time.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

The only other commercial fleet targeting swordfish off the West Coast catches fish with harpoons but contributes a fraction of the landings produced by gill netting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

Their stingers are coiled like harpoons, millions of invisible weapons just waiting.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

McLaren did their first runs on medium tyres in the first session to try to save softs for later but it seems to have harpooned Piastri.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

Reykjavík suspended commercial whaling in June after a government-commissioned report said that it took too long for whales to die after they were harpooned, sometimes hours, in breach of its law on animal welfare.

From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023

“The only time a whale gets harpooned is when he surfaces,” Mr. Gottesman said in an interview for this obituary at his firm’s Park Avenue office in 2013.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

But probably the biggest white whale I harpooned this year was my fellow New Yorker and the bard of outerborough pride, Mr. William Martin Joel.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020

One summer my dad harpooned eighteen tuna, twice as many as the next best man in Spinney Cove.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Panning a book like this may feel like harpooning a minnow, but I think treacly metaphysical fiction does us a cultural disservice.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021

Near the turn of the 20th century, Maori sailors were recruited onto whaling expeditions for their harpooning expertise.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

Speaking about the whale harpooning scene, the corporation said it had been "alerted to a further editorial breach".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2018

Staying outside the EU has also let Norway keep harpooning whales, despite strong opposition by the EU.

From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2016

Takes me an hour or so to coil it just so in the tub, the way I seen my dad do when he was harpooning tuna.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick