Sentence examples for on a spike from inspiring English sources

Pin their head on a spike and put one of those sandwich boards on your body and go to a train station and scream, "I REALLY FUCKING MEAN IT, I COULD DO WITH A DECENT SECOND JOB NOW".

We pulled up to Jay (Jaydaman) Coston's place, a one-story house in Norfolk, shutters drawn, A.D.T. security sign on a spike in the lawn.

In 2011, Mark Duggan was one of the targets of a police operation called Dibri which was focusing on a spike in gun-related incidents in London nightclubs.

But then he trips and falls on a spike and that's the end of him.

A pig's head was stuck on a spike outside Madani Academy in Fratton last December.

"I should cut off its head and stick it on a spike," Barry said.

"Nothing else matters... Just chop it off and put it on a spike.

If we find out who is responsible, we will mount his head on a spike".

"The difference is like walking on a spike and having padding in your knee," Ms. MacLeod said.

Another version says the embalmed head was stuck on a spike outside Westminster Hall where the king was tried.

In one memorable ancient production, Pentheus's head-on-a-spike was played by the real life head of Crassus, member of the first triumvirate with Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.