harpoon
Example Sentences
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A red flag for sure, but it’s not long before Nina is practically loading a harpoon gun with red flags and firing them at her new housemaid, left and right.
From Salon
He lost his balance on the snowmobile and knocked it over, driving the other end of the handlebars into the ice like a harpoon.
From Literature
Additionally, obsessives can view Quint’s harpoon gun and original design specifications for the mechanical sharks built to terrorize Martha’s Vineyard in 1974.
From Los Angeles Times
They got their name because they were the “right” whales to harpoon — their bodies floated for easy recovery after they were killed.
From Los Angeles Times
But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.
From Los Angeles Times
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