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 pain in his heart was as if a rumh had impaled it.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert