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
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 W. Bertram Foster
The clouds out yonder, far ahead, seemed to be enwrapping some part of earth that had lanced itself into the sky.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
He had looked into the mouths of every Infante and Infanta, had lanced the gums of awful Captains-General, and inserted gold wires in the ivory treasures of most of the reigning beauties.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
