Sentence examples for spike being from inspiring English sources

It's a humiliating climbdown for a monster originally inspired by Vlad the Impaler, a man who'd happily eat his lunch while watching a skewered peasant slide down an immense wooden spike, being slowly and agonisingly dragged toward the ground by their own kicking, flailing body mass.

A newly constructed computer program was used to simulate partitionless growth of α in γ of Fe-Ni-C alloys, taking into account so-called solute drag by evaluating the dissipation of Gibbs energy due to diffusion inside the interface and in the nickel spike being pushed in front of it.

The spike was born.

Only one spike was recorded.

The spike was an anomaly.

The last spike was bad enough.

Will that price spike be short-lived?

But the Spike is closed recently.

However, this spike is not seen in 2014.

Failing to plotz when gasoline prices spike is not.

The spike was reported today in The Washington Post.