Sentence examples for like a lance from inspiring English sources

The men moved warily, each holding a long, pointed paddle before him like a lance.

Its drill rod passed through a hollow piston and was thrown like a lance against the rock; caught on the rebound by a gripper, it was again hurled forward by the stroke of the piston.

In the "Heart of Darkness," the natives — the niggers, as they are called in the book, the word falling each time like a lance — speak only twice, once to express enthusiasm for cannibalism, then, later, to bring the inarticulate report, "Mistah Kurtz, he dead".

Almost her only concession to modernity was the motorised wheelchair in which she would career around the alleyways at Courtrai in her later years, wrapped in a thick knitted cape against the cold, her white stick dangerously levelled like a lance.Love's lightIn her energy and willpower she was typical of Beguines of the past.

At one point, a man wearing a black shirt with Confederate patches on it wielded an American flag like a lance.

This overreach by one judge with a lifetime appointment was like a lance through generations of hard-fought reform by rivaling elected leaders that worked together for the mutual survival of their dreams for democracy.

It takes its name from being shaped like the tip of a lance.

Apartheid grew under Fugard's skin "like a boil that needed lancing," and his 1961 play, "Blood Knot," about two half brothers, one black and the other light-skinned, was, in Als's view, "the first cut".

During one great council, deputations shuttled between Becket, on the ground floor of Northampton Castle wielding his cross like a battle lance against an insufficiently cooperative cleric, and Henry, upstairs shouting at his courtiers and refusing to descend lest a ­face-to-face encounter result in excommunication.

They lured the creatures to their boat with a carpet decoy designed to look like a seal, and used a lance to attach the tags with the aid of 2.3-inch titanium darts.

"Herb would like to ride a white horse and carry a lance," Terri said, and laughed.