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Firefighters responded, opened the rear end of the truck and used pike poles to remove the garbage by hand, according to Samuel Menchaca, a public information officer with the San Francisco Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

She said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But if it’s part of a larger pattern of opacity, instability and conflicting messaging, something larger might be coming down the pike.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even if it was a pretty incredible northern pike, his first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

The fish course was next, but as the pike was being boned Lady Alys dragged the Magnar up onto the floor.

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

She added: “Probably done 100 Yurchenko double pikes, and the first one and then the last one I’ve done, they all feel the same — scary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

Wooden pikes floated up next to store windows.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Arriving in the Tibetan quarter of Chengdu, where tens of thousands of Tibetans live under the state’s watchful gaze, officers with pikes and batons stand sentry while police lights flash red and blue.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

Before every event, players serving as “reeves” — a sort of referee — conduct a weapons check to make sure the swords, pikes, arrows and other implements comply with strict safety requirements.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018

And the pikes sit by the thousands, rusting now in a Richmond warehouse because Jackson is dead and gone to glory.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Here’s what happened: First, my stomach sank as the Russian Olympic Committee’s normally-stunning Nikita Nagornyy debuted his triple back piked salto—only to almost sit down the landing and stumble out of bounds multiple times.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

The 'firework' 3.5 somersault with one twist routine replaces what had become known as his 'demon' dive - a piked 2.5 somersault, 2.5 twist routine - which Taylor actually invented.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2015

On bars, Douglas demonstrated why she is nicknamed The Flying Squirrel with the height of her piked Tkatchevs and double straight dismount and the US left no room for error on beam or floor either.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2012

She soared so high on her first release, flipping herself up and back over the bar, her legs piked, that she could have reached out and touched her toes before grabbing the bar.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2012

Peter dug his crutches into the turf and piked hard.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Sometimes the enthusiasts are piking even in February, getting fish from 2 lb. to 20 lb., which Dr. Henshall, the well-known author and naturalist, pronounces true Esox lucius.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

Last seen she was piking off after Miss Busy Buzzy.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester

I had a hunch all along that you'd both come piking along sometime to-night or to-morrow, and after this, I refuse to worry in any degree about you.

From Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs by Homer Randall

I had been piking along and while I was giving my little firm entire satisfaction, I was not pleasing myself with what I was doing.

From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson

Yes, and this winter I've got a trip planned out that will make all the others look piking.

From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx