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gore, harpoon, jab, lance, peck, pick, pierce, pink, puncture, run through, skewer, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, transfix, transpierce
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McMichael, though, helped block out any human-nature self-pity by impaling a metal chair into the blackboard. — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, "‘Ooooh, the skulduggery!’: Inside the world of Steve McMichael, still one of the most colorful and beloved characters from the 1985 Bears," 26 Aug. 2019 An Italian track cyclist was impaled by a piece of wood that had come up on the track. — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, "Tiger, Phil do something they've never done before," 21 July 2019 Italian cyclist Lorenzo Gobbo is recovering after he was impaled during a race on Friday. — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, "Italian Cyclist, 17, Impaled by Nearly 2-Foot-Long Piece of Wooden Track During Race," 17 July 2019 As punishment, men and women were burned slowly to death at the stake, sawn in half, impaled and had their heads and hands cut off after torture with hot pinchers. — Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Quartz Africa, "A Ghanaian royal family’s conflict of collaboration and resistance in the African slave trade," 13 July 2019 One of the few natural predators of live lubbers is the shrike, a small bird that can decapitate the grasshoppers with its beak or impale them on thorns or barbed-wire fences. — Adriana Brasileiro, orlandosentinel.com, "Monster grasshoppers swarm Everglades," 19 July 2019 One old Pomo woman looked on in horror as two whites impaled a little girl on the bayonets of their guns and tossed the body in the water. — George Skelton, latimes.com, "In Newsom’s apology to Native Americans, California finally acknowledges the bigotry of its past," 20 June 2019 The full-size version meanwhile proceeded to Dublin amid reports that the larger balloon had been impaled. — Richard Morgan, Fortune, "The Story Behind the Baby Trump Balloon," 8 June 2019 The most iconic image from Braveheart includes his impaling the ground with it after a victory. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "'Outlaw King' vs. 'Braveheart': Which Movie Gets Scotland Right?," 13 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'impale.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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