Sentence examples for spike along from inspiring English sources

After her achilles was shredded by an opponent's spike, along with any realistic medal hopes, she also spent five days in hospital with blood poisoning.

Surely, he says, the naysayers are aware that the cost of electricity will spike along with the price of fossil fuels?

Hostilities between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds contributed to the sudden spike, along with a decision by the United States to impose new sanctions against Iran.

Food prices will spike along with other commodities prices as China's feeding frenzy panics other nations that are not self-sufficient in food.

These types of ants have a specialized spike along their abdomen that they stroke with one of their hind legs, similar to dragging the teeth of a comb along the edge of a table.

By day, the dead impaled on spikes along the road".

His chin is brown and tied together with black string, spiked along the suture, as if spiders had been sewn into his face.

A study published on Thursday documents that trend in Africa, where use of the social networking service has spiked along with the spread of mobile phones.

They will try to match the images with a time line of the last eight minutes of the mission, when the ship experienced a cascading series of sensor failures and heat spikes along the left wing before ripping apart.

The Chinese specimen lived around 500 million years ago and developed "super-armour" - an array of 72 spikes along its back and sides - to protect itself from other life forms that existed at the time.

While Mr. Obama smiles less than he once did, gauging his mood simply by looking at him is risky: his baseline cool temperament has seldom spiked along the rocky points of his journey.