Example Sentences

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“They’re these harpoon-like things with all these recurved barbs,” Trager said, adding that’s it’s easy to see why the spines are tough to pull out.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022

Some mantis shrimp spear their victims with harpoon-like spines on the ends of their limbs up to 16 m.p.h.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2016

He pierces its dorsal fin with the tip of a harpoon-like pole, the first step in fastening a tag.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2015

Hunley poked stealthily toward the Union ships blockading Charleston harbor on the night of Feb. 17, 1864, and rammed a harpoon-like torpedo into the U.S.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Luncheon was served and M. Cantagnac, seated comfortably, was trying the delicacies with rare conscientiousness about any escaping his harpoon-like fork.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre