Sentence examples for staked through from inspiring English sources
In "Buffy," when a demon is staked through the heart it evaporates, leaving no nasty corpse.
Just because our show has been staked through the heart -- the series finale was shown a month ago, with all the requisite media mourning and top-10 lists -- doesn't mean that our fanhood has ended with it.
But as its readers come of age, 25ish now, all thoughts of vampires staked through the heart replaced by Tinder, the liberal dismay at the book's assumed message has been forgotten.
And what I definitely don't want to see – this time in the sci-fi series Fringe – is cop-turned-schoolteacher Prez trapped in a collapsed building with a steel joist staked through a shoulder, two sets of extra limbs and another head attached to his torso, while the man I know as Lieutenant Cedric Daniels stands over him.
Potential vampires were most often staked through the heart, though the mouth was targeted in Russia and northern Germany and the stomach in north-eastern Serbia.
"This film's reflective, even stately style elevates it from the ranks of ordinary stake-through-the-heart vampire dramaturgy," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1993.
In total, MegaFon sold a 15.2 percent stake through the I.P.O.
"You need to drive a stake through its heart.
Mr. Murdoch owns the KirchPayTV stake through the British Sky Broadcasting Group.
When Maria Tutaia dropped the ball through the hoop she was driving a stake through English hearts.
Mr. Okada owns his Wynn Resorts stake through his Japan-based casino game company, Universal Entertainment.
