How to Use lance in a Sentence

lance

1 of 2 noun

• Louis offered a vast sum for the Crown of Thorns and parts of the lance, the sponge, and the Cross.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• The goal was to use the lance to knock the other competitor off their horse.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• But one day, Averill and his friends came across a lance in their path.
  — Outside Online, 10 May 2020
• This is the scene that began the running joke of Pod's huge trouser lance.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 12 Sep. 2017
• So, in the end, one of the dragons died—hit with some sort of doomsday White Walker lance.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 21 Aug. 2017
• Everybody knows about the fer-de-lance, which is the deadly pit viper.
  — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2013
• She comes home having been injured by the butt of a guard’s lance and dies a few days later.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Above the birdlike forefoot of a knight, Above Quixote’s birdlike lance.
  — Osip Mandelstam, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Carrie Napoleon is a free-lance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2017
• Carrie Napoleon is a free-lance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 4 July 2017
• The sharp lance has been a big help, and getting blackheads out is much easier.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 21 Jan. 2023
• The knights are not humans but New Zealand giraffe weevils, a species of beetle with a snout like a lance.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• When demonstrating, the widow wields a rainbow flag like a lance and glares at passersby who fail to pick up a leaflet.
  — Monika Rębała, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020
• Others used machetes to hack off spear and lance points, and then decapitate their foes.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• Each shining bonnet guarded by stern lance-like leaves.
  — WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• Echoes of the legend raise the question of whether the lance buried with the woman at Gerdrup was actually a sorceress’ staff.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• This is why Nietzsche believed that all of life is a question of taste, and why Marx said the epic battles of the modern world will be fought not with lance and sword, but with dry goods.
  — A-LIST, 2 Oct. 2017
• Its glossy, lance-shape leaves arch gracefully from a central clump of stems, and can be plain green or variegated.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2022
• Jaime Lannister is seen on horseback riding across a scorched battlefield with a lance in his hand.
  — Joe Otterson, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• Like the woman, who was buried about 260 feet away, the man showed signs of high social standing, wielding a sword, shield and lance and wearing a complete warrior outfit.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 31 July 2019
• Garrett Johnston has covered 30 majors as a free lance writer for ten years.
  — Garrett Johnston, Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2020
• Nancy worked for the phone company and was an avid free-lance photographer.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 13 July 2018
• The fact that the woman was buried with what appeared to be a lance helped overturn scholars’ assumptions about gender in Viking society.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• Many gig workers are free-lance workers like designers, artists and writers.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• But in this award-winning photo, the flag wasn't unfurled, but unleashed as a lance against a Black man by enraged white youths protesting Boston's busing plan.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• But weapons were limited at the site, with only some arrowheads, a lance-head and some sword fittings recovered.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 May 2018
• The same deadline applies for a lot of 1099 forms for miscellaneous income, such as those covering free-lance work.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2020
• January the Seventeenth: Hired knight to motivate me to joust more and insure proper lance form.
  — Kate Greathead, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2017
• Hermine Saunders is a free-lance writer about senior issues for the Carroll County Times.
  — Hermine Saunders, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Dec. 2019
• Nuns harvest penises from trees in the lower margins of a manuscript of the Roman de la rose, and a naked man presents his behind to be pierced by a monkey’s lance beneath the prayers of the Rutland Psalter.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 4 May 2020

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lance

2 of 2 verb

• He had the boil on his arm lanced.
• The jet lanced the side of the tanker; the impact was shattering.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Boils that must be lanced, or at least scabs that itch to be picked.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• The rumor was a man had died, he’d been caught beneath the rubble when lightning lanced the steeple.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• One of the things the theater should be doing today, and rarely does, is lancing the boil of our own self-deception.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• My ex-partner used to poke me in the belly to create a metaphorical release, like lancing a boil.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• Oruç fled, only to be found hiding in a goat pen, where a Spanish soldier first lanced him and then beheaded him.
  — National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2019
• His goal of lancing the boil of the Catalan separatist movement through these elections has backfired.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017
• But the second captured the moment: The streak of the missile, drawn out in the long exposure, lanced up into the night, another one further behind it.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2018
• India’s problems of corruption and cronyism would be impossible to fix without first lancing the boil of . .
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 July 2018
• In other words, Mr. Carlson is free-lancing for partisan purposes and the Senate should ignore him.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• In this marshmallow masterpiece, Moby bursts through the waves in his mini-marshmallow glory, lanced with toothpicks hand-dyed in walnut stain.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2017
• Northern willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum) is an upright perennial weed with oval- to lance-shaped leaves.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 1 July 2017
• He had the boil on his arm lanced.
• The jet lanced the side of the tanker; the impact was shattering.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Boils that must be lanced, or at least scabs that itch to be picked.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• The rumor was a man had died, he’d been caught beneath the rubble when lightning lanced the steeple.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• One of the things the theater should be doing today, and rarely does, is lancing the boil of our own self-deception.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• My ex-partner used to poke me in the belly to create a metaphorical release, like lancing a boil.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• Oruç fled, only to be found hiding in a goat pen, where a Spanish soldier first lanced him and then beheaded him.
  — National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2019
• His goal of lancing the boil of the Catalan separatist movement through these elections has backfired.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017
• But the second captured the moment: The streak of the missile, drawn out in the long exposure, lanced up into the night, another one further behind it.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2018
• India’s problems of corruption and cronyism would be impossible to fix without first lancing the boil of . .
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 July 2018
• In other words, Mr. Carlson is free-lancing for partisan purposes and the Senate should ignore him.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• In this marshmallow masterpiece, Moby bursts through the waves in his mini-marshmallow glory, lanced with toothpicks hand-dyed in walnut stain.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2017
• Northern willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum) is an upright perennial weed with oval- to lance-shaped leaves.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 1 July 2017

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