Example Sentences

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The jacket’s four-month journey — by truck, boat, and sometimes plane and rail — shows just how deeply the pandemic has impaled the world’s supply chains.

From Washington Post

No man has impaled snobbery with such a stinging rapier, but he always accused himself of being a snob, past all cure.

From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.

Suppose you tell me what has impaled you.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various