impale

The gesture was aimed at Mayfield, who in 2017 tried to impale an Oklahoma flag into the turf at Ohio Stadium after leading the Sooners to a win over the Buckeyes.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2019

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

Horrified, they watched Papa squeamishly impale a muddy worm on the hook.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The Doctors Dr. Ordon’s coronavirus diagnosis and road to recovery; a toothbrush impales child; children’s teeth reveal emotional trauma; instant eye de-puffer; hospice care; liver cancer risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2020

But suck it up, because next is a pure songwriting masterclass in “Shrike,” which is titled after a bird that impales insects on thorns.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2019

O’Reilly impales himself on a contradiction: He says his book is “laudatory” about Reagan — and that it is being attacked by Reagan “guardians” and “loyalists.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2015

“Emperor of Mongolia, Emperor of China,” he roars, “I will be Emperor of the world!”–and impales a map with his sword.

From Time ● Dec. 11, 2014

At last the seer it reaches, him impales With its sharp horns: but valiant is the seer— He grasps its crest and fights without a fear.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

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

The original “money-grubbers” earned their living selling squirming insect larvae impaled on sticks for snacks.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022

It galloped past so close I leapt backward on tiptoe, flush with the canvas to avoid being impaled on one of its crooked horns.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

An American, 47, reportedly tried to climb over a fence in Piazza del Colosseo, presumably to get a closer look at the Colosseum, before falling and impaling himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

The new 0.6-mile route replaces one general traffic lane of West Marginal Way Southwest with waist-high concrete dividers for the two-way bike lane, along with yellow-and-black steel attenuators that prevent drivers from impaling their cars.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

The insect-eating birds have beaks like swords, appropriate for stabbing and impaling insects.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The Mind Flayer is moments away from impaling El and the gate has to be shut down.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

When the railroad police came through the train, impaling the haystacks to flush out stowaways, the trainers packed the boys into tack trunks.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand