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

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 ● Jan. 31, 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

A stone’s throw from a few lounging sea lions, rusting storage tanks, boilers and beached harpoon boats lay testament to Deception Island’s past as a Norwegian whaling station.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

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

When whaling in North America hit its peak in the mid-1800s, hundreds of ships armed with gun-loaded harpoons set off on hunts in the South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022

The researchers found that two mosquito species in their larval stage caught prey by shooting their heads away from their bodies like harpoons, mouths open, and reeling in their victims with a thin neck membrane.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

The only other commercial fleet targeting swordfish off the West Coast catches fish with harpoons but contributes a fraction of the landings produced by gill netting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

Recognizable multipiece weapons at Cro-Magnon sites include harpoons, spear-throwers, and eventually bows and arrows, the precursors of rifles and other multipiece modern weapons.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The second mate had fought the idea like a harpooned whale, but he had had to learn, in self-defense.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

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

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