impaled
Example Sentences
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That’s when the Yankees impaled themselves on their pinstripes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024
But in one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window frame — gained something extraordinary.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2022
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
A "miraculously lucky" farmer who survived being impaled through the abdomen by a tine on his forklift truck has thanked medics who saved his life.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021
They staggered over slick glass ledges, around massive boulders, avoiding stalagmites that would’ve impaled them with any slip of the foot.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
