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

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 ● Aug. 16, 2025

“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

Then he crouched beside the hole a step away, his legs braced, his body bent forward, and the harpoon in his hand.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

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

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

“It’s like harpoons to their heart every time.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 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

North Atlantic right whales’ slow speed, tendency to float when harpooned and thick blubber — used in cosmetics, leather and soap — made them a frequent target for whalers for centuries.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 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

“Because they fought back when whalers harpooned them. Right in these very waters, actually. Back in the 1800s. Now, the other types of whales? Well, they’d die pretty conveniently once the harpooner stuck ’em.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Near the turn of the 20th century, Maori sailors were recruited onto whaling expeditions for their harpooning expertise.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

Its first episode shows a hunter supposedly harpooning a whale but the BBC "does not consider that the portrayal of his role is accurate".

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

All the thinking I done about harpooning a big fish, I never thought about what happens after.

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