lance

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

Ray’s mysterious and fraught history as a member of the British military during the Troubles is a festering boil this film will eventually lance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

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

A beefy lance corporal with a sledgehammer was smashing typewriters and mimeograph machines.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Trumpets sounded, a drum began to boom, the drawbridge descended in fits and starts, and Ser Edmure Hilly led his men out from Riverrun with lances raised and banners streaming.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

But was Blair correct in saying he'd "lanced the boil of separatism"?

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 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

But then Spain finally lanced the boil at Euro 2008, beating the Azzurri on penalties in the quarters en route to their first major title in 44 years.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2021

“I do,” she said, “I feel reborn, as if a festering boil has been lanced and now at last I can begin to heal. I could almost fly.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

The full moon looked less like a jewel than a yellowy blister in need of lancing.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo