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How to use impale in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word impale? Here are some examples.

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She quickly punched the first one and jumped to the side as one tried to impale her with a spear.
Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
The viperfish is thought to use its sharp teeth to impale its victims by swimming at them at high speeds.
Male shrikes in Israel's Negev Desert impale snails and nest-building materials onto thorns to attract mates.
Miraculously, Posada managed to find the ball, whirl and throw a perfect peg down to second to impale the Impaler.
Young fawns who can't jump the fence may impale themselves on the metal as they try to crawl underneath.
To make sure that a zombie stays down you need something that can pierce or impale its head.
They have a retractable proboscis that exits through a tiny pore and is used to impale prey.
But those who caused the economy to impale itself on its own greed remain protected from the consequences of their behaviour.
There is only so much a manager can learn from Genghis Khan it is no longer practical to impale competitors on spikes.
The simple creatures hope he will impale his solar topee on a tree.
In 1599 he applied to impale his arms with those of his wife's family.
You want pasta that you can easily impale or scoop with a fork, so spaghetti is out.
He was also capable of creating the absurd, producing, for example, a dress with conical bosoms more likely to impale than to support.
These can be invasive, shift around while exercising and god forbid you do anything where you fall and impale yourself on it.
When a company lives by the icon, it can, at the very least, impale itself on the icon.
People have a tendency to try to impale you with wooden stakes, cut off your head and burn you to bits.
Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
On a Tsavo safari here you will see large herds of elephant, their hides often red with dust, as well as lion, buffalo, hippos, eland, impale, kudu, giraffe and possibly rhinos.
They can impale themselves but there's no close up of their wounds.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They impale the eggs of the red grouse upon their bills, and carry them away to eat at leisure.
A knight bachelor, of course, is at liberty to impale the arms of his wife upon his escutcheon without employing the double form.
Don't take my track, or you may impale me like a roast pig on a spit.
Or wilt thou nail a man on a cross, or impale him on a stake?
He allowed us to go on without ordering his men to impale us.
Nor would he do so if his hobby were to impale human beings.
It squealed, shrill with triumph, and the horn swept up to impale him.
It was not difficult for Mr. Davis to impale him upon this plea.
How soon you going to drop the pole set up to impale Winthrope?
In a series of four tableaux spread across two galleries, Messager employed thin metal rods either to impale or to support objects against the wall.
Each seemed striving to be the first to impale the poor Zodangan and in another moment his fate would have been sealed had it not been for my timely arrival.
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