lance
noun
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
had lanced
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past perfectof lance.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When the smoke had cleared, the stunned Germans found that the Russians were on the Baltic at two points and had lanced Pomerania into three segments, accomplishing a vast double encirclement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Either Mrs. Coulter did not know the boil of feelings that her simple words had lanced, or she was monstrously clever.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
The doctor arrived just before midnight and within a half-hour had lanced the wound.
From Flappers and Philosophers by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Anderly was a boat-steerer, an old sea dog who had sailed oft and again with the skipper, and who had lanced more whales than any other half dozen men aboard.
From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by Foster, W. Bertram
They proved to be my American friend from Smith Landing, he whose hand I had lanced, and his companion, a young Englishman, who was here with him prospecting for gold and copper.
From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson
