lance

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

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

He enlisted in May 2022 and was promoted to lance corporal in August 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

Planting his lance on Don Quixote's helmet, the victor said, "You are beaten, Sir Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha, and you'll die if you do not confess what we agreed upon."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

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

I reveled in long ships with oars; I loved polished lances, arrows in the skirmish, the shapes of doom that others shake to see.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

That happened in the late 1990s at a league meeting in Atlanta, when a massive model of a renovated Coliseum tumbled off a table and lanced the back of Goodell’s ankle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

Her head spun, and she would have cursed at the stitch that lanced through her side had she had any breath to do so.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

It received some boos at its first press screening, but got heady reviews, with Screen Daily calling it a “a devouring and restless experience: a creative surge that’s like the lancing of a boil.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2017

The lyric is addressed to someone he calls "a doctor specialising in lancing boils".

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2017

Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a beguiling blend of charisma, lancing intelligence, and hostile insecurity.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016

With a muffled grunt, I throw my whole body toward the grate, wincing at the pain lancing through my torso.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir