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

“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

Some prehistoric penguins plied tropical waters off Peru, using spearlike bills to harpoon fish.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2022

Sookie hung over the ocean, yards beyond the boat with the harpoon in hand, waiting for the white shark to swim underneath him, so he could tag the fish.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

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

“The only time a whale gets harpooned is when he surfaces,” Mr. Gottesman said in an interview for this obituary at his firm’s Park Avenue office in 2013.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 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

Panning a book like this may feel like harpooning a minnow, but I think treacly metaphysical fiction does us a cultural disservice.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 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

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

From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2016

Bim Adewunmi "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. 19, 2013

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