lance
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The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Saint George is widely known as Christianity's most famous dragon slayer and is commonly depicted as a warrior holding a lance.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
Two opposing galaxies play the role of knights, with one galaxy pointing a lance made of pure radiation right at the other!
From Space Scoop ● May 21, 2025
Stephen, recruited for his ability to provide the necessary tools, had produced a 100-tonne jack, explosives, and a thermal lance, which heats and melts steel with pressurized oxygen to create very high temperatures.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
Telemakhos had left the hall, taken his lance, and gone with two quick hounds at heel into the town, Athena’s grace in his long stride making the people gaze as he came near.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Farther away, at the Glogow smelter, two workers in protective suits, armed with long lances, open huge furnaces where the ore is melted.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Unlike his two friends, Mr. Spielberg didn’t want to tilt lances at the studios, make great art or change the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Sunlight lances through the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Silver Lake Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Medieval English knights donned armor, mounted highly trained horses, and jousted with long lances in spectacular ritual combats.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024
There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Ministers also argued that at a time of geopolitical uncertainty, when old allies were less reliable and new partnerships had to be formed, the Chagos row was a diplomatic boil than needed to be lanced.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
They fell often, lanced their hands on spiked trees, dragged boots filled with mud and at times collapsed from exhaustion.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
As the name suggests, Ravi specializes in kebabs, and you can view the options in the refrigerated case, each lanced on a skewer and ready for a trip to the charcoal grill.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019
I think Chris Rock's performance lanced a national wound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2016
At Rocinante's fastest gallop, he charged and lanced a sail.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
There I was: doting on my Spanish mother, eating paella, lancing bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
The lyric is addressed to someone he calls "a doctor specialising in lancing boils".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2017
Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a beguiling blend of charisma, lancing intelligence, and hostile insecurity.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016
Her mind was more agile, her tongue sharper, her wit more lancing.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
With a muffled grunt, I throw my whole body toward the grate, wincing at the pain lancing through my torso.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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