Sentence examples for like a harpoon from inspiring English sources

And the sub's barbed torpedo, at the end of a pole attached to the prow, had to be jabbed like a harpoon into the hull of a ship.

Bob had a marvellous and wicked sense of humour (which he used like a harpoon to prick pomposity) and the densely detailed erudition common among autodidacts.

She even carries her own version of Prospero's staff, an instrument called a 'talking stick' which she has designed herself: a digital turntable shaped like a wand, which looks like a harpoon and performs like a wireless.

I have a note here about "flowing like a harpoon," but I can't really make heads or tails of it, to be honest, so let's put that one on the back burner for now.

The Azorian captain had to haul her in like a harpooned fish.

They see the live capture of sharks as more invasive than other methods of tagging, like using a harpoon to implant a tracking device.

Some of these collisions trace quite exotic shapes in the F-ring that look like barbs on a harpoon.

That style is like a spear or a harpoon, aimed and in flight.

The Philae lander is part of the Rosetta mission to investigate comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will use a harpoon like device to anchor itself onto the surface.

It's like a whale praising a harpoon!

He found the inside wall had been coated with about an inch of paraffin wax, and inside it was a small glass ampoule shaped like a tiny harpoon, containing a blackish powder.