Sentence examples for to be impaled from inspiring English sources
He is widely despised by Muslims here for the role he played in the 2002 Gujarat riots, when more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in brutal attacks that led babies to be impaled and women to be thrown alive onto burning pyres.
(As one of the young scholars puts it, "I don't want to know how it feels to be impaled, O.K.?") Even more unnerving, the last two medievalists who held this academic chair died violently, as Tres finds out when a bomb goes off in his office.
Not wishing to be impaled, he grabbed hold of the moose's antlers as it flailed with the urgency of the dying.
Occasionally, women found guilty of witchcraft have been condemned to be impaled.
For example, roughly 1200 BC, merchants of Ugarit express deep concern to each other that a fellow citizen is to be impaled in the Phoenician town Sidon, due to some "great sin" committed against the patron deity of Sidon.
Counsel contend with great ability that the law under consideration is necessarily subject to being impaled on one or the other of two horns of a dilemma, either inflicting a fatal wound.
"If there's a word to describe how I feel, I think it would be impaled," he said.
You may be impaled by the javelin.
In another trick of perspective, Saturn's moon Tethys appears to have been impaled on the planet's A and F rings in this picture taken in visible light by the Cassini spacecraft.
An exhibition of her large color photographic studies of women imperiled by nature -- in one, the artist has buried her face into the ground at the base of a tree, while in another she appears to have been impaled by a coconut palm -- opened earlier this month at the Snitzer Gallery.
