harpoon

A harpoon gun from "Jaws," a jacket worn by "The Terminator," and a "Star Wars" lightsaber hilt and C-3PO head are among the eye-catching items to be sold at auction next month.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

“And when they got close enough to the seal, they would grab their harpoon and get the seal,” said Johnson, an Inupiaq originally from Nome.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

He also filmed larvae of the mosquito species Psorophor ciliata, which had even more powerful and farther-reaching harpoon heads.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

The pilot must have seen the destruction down on the runway, but he couldn’t have heard the harpoon.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Crew members plowed through ice, buzzed vessels attempting to dump nuclear waste, dodged harpoons, and spent almost a week in a Siberian prison.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Proposed approaches include snatching debris with a robotic arm, scooping it up with giant nets, attracting it with magnets and spearing it with harpoons.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025

Gray whales, once known as “Devil Fish” for their aggressive response to whalers’ harpoons, migrate annually from the cold Alaskan waters of the Pacific down to the lagoons off the coast of Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

From bone, the hunter-gatherer peoples designed harpoons useful for hunting large marine mammals like whales.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

McLaren did their first runs on medium tyres in the first session to try to save softs for later but it seems to have harpooned Piastri.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

Reykjavík suspended commercial whaling in June after a government-commissioned report said that it took too long for whales to die after they were harpooned, sometimes hours, in breach of its law on animal welfare.

From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023

A write-up in the Evening Capital from August 1895 tells how he harpooned a 9½-foot beast that towed him all the way to Greenbury Point two miles away.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2022

But probably the biggest white whale I harpooned this year was my fellow New Yorker and the bard of outerborough pride, Mr. William Martin Joel.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020

One summer my dad harpooned eighteen tuna, twice as many as the next best man in Spinney Cove.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Speaking about the whale harpooning scene, the corporation said it had been "alerted to a further editorial breach".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2018

So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016

Staying outside the EU has also let Norway keep harpooning whales, despite strong opposition by the EU.

From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2016

Martin Skegg "I need a case!" shouts Sherlock as he impatiently paces his flat a scant few hours after harpooning a pig in a previous assignment.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013

“All right. So here you can see us harpooning the whale. Oh, Jesus—here we go! Feel that tug! It’s awesome. Totally awesome. Okay, this is what they call a ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride.’

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson