impaled
Example Sentences
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That’s when the Yankees impaled themselves on their pinstripes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
And when a Labrador retriever owned by another company officer gulped down a bagel impaled with a toothpick, he said, most of the resulting $10,5000 surgical bill was covered as well.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Local fire department personnel and state police responded early Saturday to find the animal not impaled on the structure but unable to get its belly and rear legs over the top.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
“It’s sort of like if the Mona Lisa had been impaled somehow,” Neil Myers, a landscape artist who painted a 24-by-30-inch portrait of the cactus in 2007, told The Washington Post.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2022
Octavian slid his iron dagger from his belt and threw it at the table, where it impaled a map of Camp Half-Blood.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
