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
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
Pain shot through him like a red-hot lance.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
They would have made good time, but armored destriers and twelve-foot lances would avail them little against the deep waters of the Blackwater Rush and the high stone walls of the city.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
I think Chris Rock's performance lanced a national wound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2016
Either Mrs. Coulter did not know the boil of feelings that her simple words had lanced, or she was monstrously clever.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
There I was: doting on my Spanish mother, eating paella, lancing bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
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
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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