lance
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The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Saint George is widely known as Christianity's most famous dragon slayer and is commonly depicted as a warrior holding a lance.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
Two opposing galaxies play the role of knights, with one galaxy pointing a lance made of pure radiation right at the other!
From Space Scoop ● May 21, 2025
The sustenance is presided over by a sculpture of an Amazonian woman, who wields a squeegee rather than a lance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025
Mrs. Reilly stuck a finger into the newspaper as if she meant to lance the photograph.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The videos on social media showed them dressed as knights in armour, complete with chainmail and lances, attempting to knock each other off the bikes.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Farther away, at the Glogow smelter, two workers in protective suits, armed with long lances, open huge furnaces where the ore is melted.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Unlike his two friends, Mr. Spielberg didn’t want to tilt lances at the studios, make great art or change the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Sunlight lances through the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Silver Lake Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
They drew closer, lances leveled as if each gleaming point sought its own target.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
They fell often, lanced their hands on spiked trees, dragged boots filled with mud and at times collapsed from exhaustion.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
Tuchel answered questions about the owner's decision in his post-match interview with a great deal more composure than he did days before, as though it had somehow lanced the boil.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2022
“That would have lanced the boil in a very powerful way, and they could have reset the conversation,” Hess said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
That happened in the late 1990s at a league meeting in Atlanta, when a massive model of a renovated Coliseum tumbled off a table and lanced the back of Goodell’s ankle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
The phantom memory of the blinding pain lanced through her hand.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
And there were plenty of lancing words about Chislett’s leadership.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020
Alan Simpson, the former senator from Wyoming, brought an acute understanding of Washington’s foibles, and a reputation for lancing humor, to the task of remembering his friend.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018
Gadsby wields her craft like a weapon, lancing out the trauma and forcing us to look at it.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2018
The lyric is addressed to someone he calls "a doctor specialising in lancing boils".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2017
Mr. Milgrom was lancing a boil on his wife’s leg.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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