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
Aguilera, 22, enlisted in March 2023 and was promoted to lance corporal in May 2024, according to the Marine 1st Division.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
His head snapped round, and from between his jaws a lance of flame erupted, a swirling storm of orange-and-yellow fire shot through with veins of green.
From "A Dance with Dragons" 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
Tournaments began as rougher, less “gentlemanly” affairs in which competitors rode against each other with lances and then proceeded to fight with close-quarters weapons ahorse or on foot.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
Sunlight lances through the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Silver Lake Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
They'd been joking and even singing as they'd come on, the three trees of Tallhart streaming above them while rabbitskins flapped stupidly from the points of their lances.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
I think Chris Rock's performance lanced a national wound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2016
At Rocinante's fastest gallop, he charged and lanced a sail.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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
There I was: doting on my Spanish mother, eating paella, lancing bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Gadsby wields her craft like a weapon, lancing out the trauma and forcing us to look at it.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2018
Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a beguiling blend of charisma, lancing intelligence, and hostile insecurity.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016
Mr. Milgrom was lancing a boil on his wife’s leg.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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