as in to stab
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
impale a marshmallow or two on that stick and let's start toasting
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Recent Examples of impale
Here, Mark and the school principal (Bill Camp) recognize the threat relatively quickly, fashioning wooden stakes from whatever’s handy — a chair leg, a baseball bat — and impaling their attackers on them.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Helms has a missing tooth, Bartha's mattress lies impaled on a nearby statue, and a giant Bengal tiger is roaming their hotel suite.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
After being impaled on a wire fence, a 2-year-old Phoenix stray dog recovered and was placed into a home on Wednesday.
—Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2024
In 2023, a woman in South Carolina was killed after a loose umbrella impaled her chest.
—Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 25 June 2024
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Helms has a missing tooth, Bartha's mattress lies impaled on a nearby statue, and a giant Bengal tiger is roaming their hotel suite.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
After being impaled on a wire fence, a 2-year-old Phoenix stray dog recovered and was placed into a home on Wednesday.
—Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2024
In 2023, a woman in South Carolina was killed after a loose umbrella impaled her chest.
—Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 25 June 2024
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Another execution attempt of Creech, 74, had been scheduled for Nov. 13 — coincidentally, the same date in which the four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in 2022 in an off-campus apartment house.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Samuel Paty, 47, was stabbed repeatedly in 2020 outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris by an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen origin, then decapitated, days after showing his pupils the caricatures.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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One of the bullets brushed his spine and another pierced his bladder, leaving him with a permanent catheter.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Procedures Your healthcare provider may also suggest a nipple retractor or piercing for a longer-term solution.Brandi Jones, MSN-Ed, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
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Sheriff Bianco attributed Solis’s death to suffocation and blood loss after his jugular vein was punctured.Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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In 2010, swordfish attacked an Angolan oil pipeline, puncturing an oil loading pipe and delaying tanker shipments, Reuters reported.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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The Sharks’ prospect pool was also largely devoid of high-end talent, with the organization trading away multiple first-round draft picks throughout the 2010s for short-term solutions to keep the championship window open.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Rachel picks Caroline, and Genevieve goes with Sue, while Lavos Teeny and Sol stick together, and macho men Kyle and Gabe team up.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Any extra surface moisture will prevent the caramel from sticking properly.Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
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In fact, the key to this scene – the key to sticking that aforementioned landing — was making sure that Noa never came off as too emotional.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 Oct. 2024
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Neeson, by contrast, is the quiet professional, with a right hook that can still jab like a crowbar.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Chatty charmer Richard jabs her with a needle full of a paralyzing agent and then carts her around to various locales and in various vehicles.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Impale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impale. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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