impale
verb (used with object)
to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
had impaled
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past perfectof impale.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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You described how the squid finally freed itself by tearing off one of its 5.5-m-long tentacles, leaving it behind on the hook that had impaled it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers and most of the Imperial Fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Part of the VW’s fender had impaled itself in the street.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
In Pappachi’s study, mounted butterflies and moths had disintegrated into small heaps of iridescent dust that powdered the bottom of their glass display cases, leaving the pins that had impaled them naked.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
The cyclone had impaled it on a tree-twig near by, if in derision; and Hannah, when it was presented to him as a plaything, flung it away from him as if in disgust.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
