Sentence examples for tip of a lance from inspiring English sources
It takes its name from being shaped like the tip of a lance.
Too late to help her husband, Henry II, who took the tip of a jousting lance through the eye socket, but no blame can attach to Nostradamus for the king's demise ten painful days later.
Each flag has a blue ribbon above it and at the tips of their flagpoles are found, one on each side, a Wallachian eagle, the edge of a lance and a Moldavian aurochs.
Then there was the tail, which reminded me of a lance.
The tip of a striped hide.
"The government had this wonderful suit of armor, a lance and a sword.
At the tip of the steel tube, a refractory lance that can withstand high temperatures was immersed into the molten steel surface to pass through the surface slag layer.
These include a lance, crown of thorns and a stick with a sponge soaked in vinegar.
"We hauled up and churned a lance back of his head," the journalist J. Ross Browne wrote in 1846.
For 600 years the bullfighting spectacle consisted of a mounted aristocrat armed with a lance.
