impaled
Example Sentences
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That’s when the Yankees impaled themselves on their pinstripes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024
Local fire department personnel and state police responded early Saturday to find the animal not impaled on the structure but unable to get its belly and rear legs over the top.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
“It’s sort of like if the Mona Lisa had been impaled somehow,” Neil Myers, a landscape artist who painted a 24-by-30-inch portrait of the cactus in 2007, told The Washington Post.
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2022
She wore a bowler hat impaled with a Union flag and brandished another in her hand.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2022
As I stood debating what to do, my eyes wandered about, and fell upon several placards, in red ink, impaled upon a nearby fence.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
