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Example sentences for "impaling"

Lexicographically close words:
impala; impale; impaled; impalement; impales; impalpable; impanel; impaneled; impanelled; impart
  1. He clutched it in an instant, seized the boat-knife, and impaling the letter on it, sent it thus loaded back into the ship.

  2. His arms were a Fesse chequy between three crescents impaling a chevron three stags.

  3. One of these seals has in the middle, in a shield, Elizabeth's own arms of Clare impaling Burgh within a black border bedewed with tears.

  4. A close approximation to the better way of displaying the King's arms is illustrated by the lately adopted banners of Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra, both of which show the Sovereign's arms impaling those of his consort.

  5. Shield of Bryen impaling Bures, from a brass in Acton church, Suffolk.

  6. This displays four shields: one has the arms of Bourchier quartering Lovain and impaling the quarterly arms of Berners; and another, the six quarterings of Sir Humphrey's wife, Elizabeth Tylney.

  7. What could be more natural than competitive fencing and impaling another man with one's vibrating, titillating sword with a vibrant force far greater than women could take?

  8. At the foot of the tomb was an escutcheon with her arms and the arms of the Earl of Warwick, impaling the arms of Clare and Despenser.

  9. Clare impaling England (Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, and John, afterwards King of England).

  10. France and England impaling Castile and Leon--for Isabelle of Castile, Duchess of York.

  11. Clare quartering Despenser and impaling France and England (Constance, the mother of the foundress of the chapel).

  12. Prelates bear the arms of their see impaling their own paternal and hereditary arms, the insignia of the see occupying the dexter half of the Shield, this Shield being ensigned with a mitre only.

  13. The husband of an Heiress or a Co-heiress, instead of impaling the arms of his wife, marshals them upon his Shield charged as an Escutcheon of Pretence.

  14. Label impaling that of his mother’s father.

  15. Usually the simple eagle is at the top, the so-called Eagle-Maiden below on the right, and the Bends impaling the dimidiated eagle on the left.

  16. However, the proper arms of the town were--Bendy of six Gules and Argent impaling Or an Imperial eagle dimidiated, sable.

  17. The reredos, an arcading of slender arches each enclosing a trefoiled arch impaling a trefoil, is a restoration of the original Decorated work.

  18. England impaling Scotland: is it to be supposed that, for Scotch purposes, they bore Scotland impaling England?

  19. Horrible Impaling of a Man on an Iron Picket.

  20. Horrible Impaling of a Mart on an Iron Picket.

  21. The walls were of stone, and the great gate in the north front was adorned with the arms of England, as differenced for Edmund of Langley, impaling the arms of Castille and Leon.

  22. In 1520 stained glass with the arms of Stillington impaling Bigod, was placed in one of the windows of Stillingfleet church.

  23. He may be gentle--in some relations of life; but in the matter of impaling live-bait and hooking fishes his gentleness is of a worse than dubious quality.

  24. The impaling of a worm or maggot is disgusting enough; but when live fish are used as bait the cruelty is still worse.

  25. The Great Northern Shrike has the habit of impaling the bodies of its victims upon thorns or of hanging them by the neck in the crotch of two small limbs.

  26. It is my belief that this habit of impaling its prey upon thorns or of hanging it by the neck in a crotch is one that is confined largely to the summer season, and especially to the nesting period.

  27. He had worn a condom but it was doubtful that condoms were meant to stretch so far or be unbreakable when the long black horn was impaling with such force.

  28. Montague, Argent three losenges in fess impaling Monthermer, Or an Eagle displaid Vert; third, Spenser, viz.

  29. The last, Smith's impaling Fitzherbert in the first and fourth, and two other coats quarterly.

  30. The next towards the altar, Smith impaling Throckmorton; and Olney, Spyne and Bosson, quarterly.

  31. In reference to the arrangement consequent upon the union with Scotland, he observes that, how proper soever the impaling the arms of the two kingdoms was in other respects, it appeared with great impropriety upon the money.

  32. On the second landing is an interesting inlaid table with the arms of Hardwick impaling Talbot, and on the wall by it hangs some of the oldest tapestry in the house.

  33. Manners impaling Vernon, and the crests those of Manners and Vernon alternately.

  34. Beneath these is a bold cornice and ornamental frieze, on which again occur three shields with the arms, respectively, in the centre Manners impaling Vernon; and on one side Avenell, and on the other Roos.

  35. Her maiden name was Long, and the shield shows us Mason impaling Long.

  36. The Cairnes arms, impaling Gould, are on a round shield in a scaly frame; this is placed on steps, at the back of which is classical masonry.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impaling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    achievement; annulet; armory; arms; azure; bandeau; bar; baton; bearings; bend; billet; blazon; canton; charge; chevron; chief; cockatrice; coronet; crescent; crest; cross; crown; device; difference; eagle; ermine; escutcheon; field; file; fret; fur; garland; helmet; label; lion; lozenge; metal; motto; ordinary; pale; quarter; quartering; rose; sable; scutcheon; shield; tincture; unicorn; wreath