impale
verb (used with object)
to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
have impaled
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present perfectof impale.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now that those producers have impaled themselves on a horn of plenty, Buchwald urged Americans to have a heart and to "do unto them what they have done unto us."
From Time Magazine Archive
He probably could have impaled Jason several times, but the giant insisted on doing a pirouette with every attack, which slowed him down.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
"Sneer at my poor form," he cried, in strong vibrating tones, flinging out one long arm and one thin finger at the Wondersmith, as if he would have impaled him like a beetle.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
These men have impaled moths and dissected, magnified and located brain, heart and nerves.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
The arms I have impaled were certainly not Boleyn's.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
