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
Davis was just promoted to lance corporal on Jan. 1, having enlisted in the Marine Corps in September 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
A plume of scarlet silk streamed behind him when he rode, and it seemed no lance could touch him.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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
Medieval English knights donned armor, mounted highly trained horses, and jousted with long lances in spectacular ritual combats.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024
Turn the uniforms into mirrors, blaring with the sun, the lances into spears of steel.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Ministers also argued that at a time of geopolitical uncertainty, when old allies were less reliable and new partnerships had to be formed, the Chagos row was a diplomatic boil than needed to be lanced.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
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
“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
She reached as high as she could, but stinging pain lanced through her palms.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
There I was: doting on my Spanish mother, eating paella, lancing bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
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
The lyric is addressed to someone he calls "a doctor specialising in lancing boils".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2017
Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a beguiling blend of charisma, lancing intelligence, and hostile insecurity.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016
The full moon looked less like a jewel than a yellowy blister in need of lancing.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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