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Example sentences for "impales"

Lexicographically close words:
impairs; impala; impale; impaled; impalement; impaling; impalpable; impanel; impaneled; impanelled
  1. All the attributes of sovereignty vested in Congress by the Constitution it impales upon the point of an alleged implication.

  2. All the attributes of sovereignty vested in Congress by the Constitution, it impales upon the point of an alleged implication.

  3. There is no doubt that the shrike impales his prey so that he can pull it to pieces to eat, for his feet are too small to hold it.

  4. And writers about birds who study for themselves, and do not merely repeat what others have said, generally agree that the bird kills his prey before he impales it.

  5. When a thorny branch is given it, it impales all its flies, making at the same time the drollest and most singular movements.

  6. It impales as many of these insects as it can catch for its meal on the thorns of bushes.

  7. Lanius Excubitor also impales insects, but Heckewelder denies that it feeds upon them.

  8. So said Wilson, but subsequent writers have said terrible things about him: that he catches small birds and impales them on thorns; that he delights in killing more than he can eat.

  9. All this, of course, does not prove that the shrike never impales his prey, but it does prove that he does not spend all his time at the work; and while I have no doubt he has the habit, I believe the accounts of it are very much exaggerated.

  10. An ordinary commoner impales his wife's arms as in Fig.


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