lance
noun
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
lances
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present tense formof lance (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The videos on social media showed them dressed as knights in armour, complete with chainmail and lances, attempting to knock each other off the bikes.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
Tournaments began as rougher, less “gentlemanly” affairs in which competitors rode against each other with lances and then proceeded to fight with close-quarters weapons ahorse or on foot.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
From the looks of the grounds, tom and muddy and littered with bits of dinted armor and broken lances, they had been at it for a day or more, but now the end was near.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
