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 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

By law, he is supposed to be serving in the military, but he fled and tries to make a living catching fish with a harpoon.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2022

Around the same time, Norwegians invented the explosive harpoon, which killed whales more efficiently than hand-thrown versions, and the stern slipway, which allowed whale carcasses to be processed on board ships.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2022

A harpoon boat has a long catwalk that hangs over the water, so a fisherman can get closer to the big fish.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

Cusack and Streeter would team on three other projects that delivered harpoons to the heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

From bone, the hunter-gatherer peoples designed harpoons useful for hunting large marine mammals like whales.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

With it she could, like her father, freeze leather and sinew into sleds, spears, and harpoons.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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

A write-up in the Evening Capital from August 1895 tells how he harpooned a 9½-foot beast that towed him all the way to Greenbury Point two miles away.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 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

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

So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016

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

From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2016

“All right. So here you can see us harpooning the whale. Oh, Jesus—here we go! Feel that tug! It’s awesome. Totally awesome. Okay, this is what they call a ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride.’

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson