Sentence examples for stakes driven from inspiring English sources

Another suggested trying miniature silver bullets, or tiny stakes driven through the heart.

Canvas bags filled with soft material and attached to metal stakes driven into the ground mark first, second, and third base.

In centuries past, suicides were buried at night at a crossroads, under piles of stones, or had stakes driven through their hearts to prevent their unquiet spirits from troubling the rest of us.

We need a system that enables all universities to flourish with greater diversity, including incentives for high-attaining students to attend ex-polytechnics, many of which lose out in popularity stakes driven by high entry requirements.

The old guerrilla anthem Lethu Mshini Wami ("Bring Me My Machine Gun") is sung by pro-Zuma crowds and Mr. Zuma himself called his rivals "witches," who, in Zulu tradition, were killed by stakes driven into their anuses.

By this time of year, tall stakes driven into the ocean floor have been connected with netting, a process sometimes called "suiting your weirs," and people like Foster are getting up at a quarter to five every morning hoping to find the nets full of herring.

The emotional stakes drive the commitment of this character to get back to his family and his former reality.

Having a baby, maybe, will be the stake driven through the heart of my fantasy football addiction.

A restraining line ran from a clip near the pilot's position at the leading edge of the lower wing to a stake driven into the ground behind the machine.

When a woman steps onto point, the straightness of her leg feels like a stake driven into the ground; and when her foot then comes off point it has the quality of something crumbling.

The author of the national pledge, Francis Bellamy, writing at a time when the Civil War was fresher in memory than the Reagan Administration is now, pointedly included "indivisible" as a stake driven through the heart of the Slave Power.