lance
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The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Saint George is widely known as Christianity's most famous dragon slayer and is commonly depicted as a warrior holding a lance.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
Ray’s mysterious and fraught history as a member of the British military during the Troubles is a festering boil this film will eventually lance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Two opposing galaxies play the role of knights, with one galaxy pointing a lance made of pure radiation right at the other!
From Space Scoop ● May 21, 2025
It was knight-hood he had always dreamed of; bright armor and streaming banners, lance, and sword, a warhorse between his legs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Farther away, at the Glogow smelter, two workers in protective suits, armed with long lances, open huge furnaces where the ore is melted.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Unlike his two friends, Mr. Spielberg didn’t want to tilt lances at the studios, make great art or change the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Sunlight lances through the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Silver Lake Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Medieval English knights donned armor, mounted highly trained horses, and jousted with long lances in spectacular ritual combats.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024
For a moment they made a brave show, all bright armor and streaming banners, the sun flashing off the points of their lances.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
They fell often, lanced their hands on spiked trees, dragged boots filled with mud and at times collapsed from exhaustion.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
She later confessed that the stress of stardom caused her to develop a "boil on the bum" that had to be lanced hours before performing live on Dutch TV.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022
“That would have lanced the boil in a very powerful way, and they could have reset the conversation,” Hess said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
I saw a better doctor the day I arrived in Whitehorse; gently holding my head with one hand, she lanced the infection.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2019
A queer brilliance lanced through billowing smoke, and the people of Weep had to squint against it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
For them to catch fire, he says “it would take some spectacular lancing of the actual cells themselves, which would mean going through a very strong external structure”.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
There I was: doting on my Spanish mother, eating paella, lancing bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
This film demonstrates the joy of lancing the boil.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2020
Alan Simpson, the former senator from Wyoming, brought an acute understanding of Washington’s foibles, and a reputation for lancing humor, to the task of remembering his friend.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018
Mr. Milgrom was lancing a boil on his wife’s leg.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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