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

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

Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

The two ships were tilting at each other like jousters with spiked lances, the fog wafting around them as they prepared for battle.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

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

Lightning lanced through the sky like a trident, and for a second the entire island was lit up in brilliant blinding light.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

For them to catch fire, he says “it would take some spectacular lancing of the actual cells themselves, which would mean going through a very strong external structure”.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

It received some boos at its first press screening, but got heady reviews, with Screen Daily calling it a “a devouring and restless experience: a creative surge that’s like the lancing of a boil.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2017

Groves continued pushing the pace, lancing fast, accurate right hands over Froch’s low left hand; never had the champ been lit up like this.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017

Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a beguiling blend of charisma, lancing intelligence, and hostile insecurity.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016

Because she was heavily sedated, Pita slept through the lancing and compressing and didn’t come back around until Abuelita Remedios was done wrapping her leg with a pale thin gauze.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall