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

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

Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

“And when they got close enough to the seal, they would grab their harpoon and get the seal,” said Johnson, an Inupiaq originally from Nome.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

I had taken a break after the part about the harpoon boat.

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

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

The researchers found that two mosquito species in their larval stage caught prey by shooting their heads away from their bodies like harpoons, mouths open, and reeling in their victims with a thin neck membrane.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

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

Walrus tusks gleamed and drums, harpoons, and man’s knives decorated the walls.

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

North Atlantic right whales’ slow speed, tendency to float when harpooned and thick blubber — used in cosmetics, leather and soap — made them a frequent target for whalers for centuries.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 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

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

There are no values or morals behind this brand of harpooning.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2018

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