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Example sentences for "impale"

Lexicographically close words:
impaired; impairing; impairment; impairs; impala; impaled; impalement; impales; impaling; impalpable
  1. I will impale you on stakes, if I do not learn this minute where that poisonous reptile is, that son of a wild boar.

  2. In that case," sighed Sargon, "the prince should impale a good number of those rioters on stakes.

  3. But what couldst Thou do in presence of a wild man who would perhaps impale thee on a stake?

  4. They conquer, they impale on stakes or flay living people, they destroy captured cities and lead away their inhabitants to bondage.

  5. I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.

  6. Etym: [So called because it is believed to kill and impale on thorns nine birds, etc.

  7. Impale him with your weapons round about.

  8. If only, he told himself, he could continue to control those eyes that he subconsciously wanted to impale into his mother in a long and unequivocal stare of hate, then he would have self-mastery and power.

  9. They beat and impale them in the most inhumane manner.

  10. I now impale her in mine arms; (Love's compasses confining you, Good angels, to a circle too.

  11. They are placed at a considerable angle, and would impale an intruder in the groin or upper thigh, inflicting a cruel and disabling wound.

  12. The only way to be delivered from their haunting, is to disinter them, cut off their head, impale them, burn them, or pierce their heart.

  13. Whence it happens, that the people of those countries impale them, cut off their heads, burn them, to deprive their spirit of all hope of animating them again, and of making use of them to molest the living.

  14. But what couldst thou do in presence of a wild man who would perhaps impale thee on a stake?

  15. It squealed, shrill with triumph, and the horn swept up to impale him.

  16. The horn-leg ropes were loosened so the unicorns could travel, and the unicorns went into a frenzy of bucking and rearing, squealing with rage as they tried to impale their riders.

  17. If I were to impale one of these lazy dancers, would terror make the others dance better?

  18. Twere better to impale a swine from the herd called the people--one who possesses zechins.

  19. Somewhere about this date an unsuccessful application was made to impale the arms of Shakespeare with those of Arden.

  20. Somewhere about this time an attempt was made to get a grant to "impale the arms of Shakespeare with those of Arden," ignotum cum ignotiore.

  21. Now, if I impale thee for conspiracy, how shall I burn thee for blasphemy?

  22. Deans also and lesser ecclesiastical dignitaries in many cases impale their family coats with an official one, in the same way.

  23. Archbishops and Bishops impale the Arms of their See with their own paternal coats, the official coat taking the dexter position.

  24. Nor have I even seen a shrike impale a victim.

  25. Archbishops impale their own arms with those of their see, the latter being marshalled to the dexter.

  26. The Kings of Arms, in like manner, bear two Shields, disposed to form a single group: on the dexter Shield their official arms impale their personal; and on the sinister Shield their personal arms are marshalled with the arms of their wives.

  27. F F, he would simply impale the arms of his wife, as in No.

  28. They impale the eggs of the red grouse upon their bills, and carry them away to eat at leisure.

  29. Woe to the luckless mort or trout that comes within reach of his formidable pike, or to the attacking peregrine that he attempts to impale on his bill.

  30. On that spike they used to impale alive goats and kids and fowls as offerings to the god Siva and his two wives, the deities to whose honour the three altars stand before the little shrine.

  31. Now we do not impale alive; the Government has stopped it.

  32. Knowing that the south side of the shelter is the thinnest side, The Owl would drive in his spear and impale the little dweller.

  33. The next time the hawk swooped down, he let it drive with full force at the dead duck, and thus impale itself on the muskrat spear.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonize; bayonet; bite; bloody; bore; broach; claw; convulse; crucify; dagger; dismember; drill; fix; gore; gouge; grill; harrow; hole; honeycomb; impale; knife; lacerate; lance; macerate; martyr; needle; penetrate; perforate; picket; pierce; pink; prick; punch; puncture; punish; rack; ream; riddle; savage; scarify; skewer; spear; spike; spit; stab; stick; tap; thrust; torment; torture; transfix; wring