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
When the gash on my leg got bad and I was delirious with fever, the doctor had to lance it open to let out all the infection.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
Five hundred knights surrounded him, sunlight flashing off the points of their lances.
From "A Game of Thrones" 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
I think Chris Rock's performance lanced a national wound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2016
Pain lanced through his skull, and a sudden wave of exhaustion washed over him, a heavy, dragging thing that was like a two-ton blanket draped over his shoulders.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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
Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a beguiling blend of charisma, lancing intelligence, and hostile insecurity.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016
Her mind was more agile, her tongue sharper, her wit more lancing.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
With a muffled grunt, I throw my whole body toward the grate, wincing at the pain lancing through my torso.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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