Sentences with lance
lance
L l - It is a painful experience having the boil lanced. [have noun VERB-ed]
- ...the clang of lances striking armour.
- According to local legend, the killer whales would even guide the tiny whale boats out to the hunt so that the whalers could harpoon and lance the harassed animal.
- He could sink that harpoon 3 feet into a whale and once fast it was not long before he was on the whale's back driving the lance 6 feet into its vitals.
- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
- The water to the lance is maintained at a high pressure, resulting in a powerful, fast jet of water.
- Stubb takes after it in the process of pitchpoling; with a long lance, connected to a length of rope, he darts the whale, then pulls the lance back, and repeats the process.
- Too late, he saw a flash out of the corner of his eye, and felt a stinging pain lance along his back.
- He felt a jolt of fear lance through his gut but managed to keep his voice level.
- That team was distinct from the fluid, fleet-footed one that lanced Livingston the week before.
- At the bottom, she jumped up and felt pain lance through her right knee.
- The liquid nitrogen injection station consists of a liquid nitrogen lance, which is moved in and out of the ready-mix truck drum using a pneumatic cylinder.
- Other arguments against same-sex marriage were similarly lanced by the judge.
- Suggested treatment for small, intact blisters is to remove the blister contents by needle aspiration or to lance the blister at its base but leave a pedicle of attachment.
- Men of the armies fought with double-edged swords, battle-axes, lances, slings, and weapons of archery.
- In the open hearth process an oxygen lance is arranged to blow large volumes of oxygen onto the molten metal in the hearth.
- They wore chain mail into battle, used a lance, sword or mace to fight with and rode horses that were bred to carry such a weight at speed.
- A pneumatically operated ball valve controls the flow of liquid nitrogen through each lance, and the entire process is sequenced from a pushbutton control panel.
- The harpoon is a metal lance that is blasted out of the ship's harpoon gun by old-fashioned black powder.
- This is made evident by the fact that young Protestant girls from neighbouring schools also joined in the protest as they lanced verbal assaults at their Catholic peers.