harpoon
noun
a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
had harpooned
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past perfectof harpoon.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In midocean it's not unusual to encounter whales so sound asleep they can successfully be attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one in its slumber.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter
In a trice they had harpooned the flag, and before I could fire again it was back in their camp.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one during its sleep.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
Where were the people who had harpooned it?
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
He was a large bull that an Eskimo had harpooned.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
