impale
Example Sentences
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Michigan and Wisconsin hold sturgeon spearing seasons each winter as well where anglers drill holes through lake ice and impale sturgeon as they swim past.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
They evolved near the base of the ant family tree and sported sharp, sickle-shaped tusks that may have slammed upward to impale other insects.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2019
In any case, it’s an environment that you move around in, not some map you impale with little pins.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2018
“As soon as you impale that apple on the nail, decay begins,” Viancour says.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017
“I managed to snag it after you dropped it. The boar did try to impale me too, but… perks of being a ghost, and all that.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing impale
"Balboa," Vocabulary from the short story
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