Example Sentences

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For them to catch fire, he says “it would take some spectacular lancing of the actual cells themselves, which would mean going through a very strong external structure”.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

There I was: doting on my Spanish mother, eating paella, lancing bulls.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

Alan Simpson, the former senator from Wyoming, brought an acute understanding of Washington’s foibles, and a reputation for lancing humor, to the task of remembering his friend.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 6, 2018

All I knew was that one of the sharpest pains I’d ever felt was lancing into me from the vicinity of my right ear.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2017

With a muffled grunt, I throw my whole body toward the grate, wincing at the pain lancing through my torso.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir