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Example sentences for "transfix"

Lexicographically close words:
transfiguration; transfigure; transfigured; transfigures; transfiguring; transfixed; transfixing; transfixion; transform; transformable
  1. Transfix me from thence with thine arrows, if thou canst.

  2. As a soldier came to the edge of an apparently empty hole in the ground, a man would spring out upon him and transfix him before he had time to offer resistance.

  3. Must not the same arrow transfix an effective God that does away with an effective Devil?

  4. The next disorder that met her eye was one that gave her pause--seemed, indeed, to transfix her.

  5. To transfix the Reverend Mother's gracious epistle on your blade's keen point, would not tend to elucidate her meaning; nor could it alter the fact that she sends you important counsel concerning Sister Mary Seraphine.

  6. His face was absolutely colourless; but his eyes, like blue steel, seemed to transfix the Knight, who could not withdraw his regard from those keen points of light.

  7. Another method is to transfix the furuncle by passing the knife through its base and making it cut outwards through the skin.

  8. It is the common practice in dealing with inflamed and septic ovaries and tubes to transfix and ligature the pedicles as in a simple clean ovariotomy.

  9. Jemshíd drew the string, and the arrow struck the female dove so skilfully as to transfix both the wings, and pin them together.

  10. I've unearthed the brock: Now, to transfix him!

  11. In oblique fractures, the pointed lower end of the proximal fragment may transfix the quadriceps extensor muscle and may be felt under the skin, or it may perforate the skin and thus render the fracture compound.

  12. The fragments may be fixed to one another by a long steel peg introduced through the skin over the great trochanter, and passed so as to transfix them; or they may be exposed by operation and sutured together.

  13. If the perinaeum were to be penetrated at a point midway between the bulb of the urethra and the anus, and to the depth of two inches straight backwards, the instrument would transfix the apex of the gland.

  14. Poor Leo was not a moment too soon in reaching his kite, for these people were about to transfix it with their whale-harpoons, when he dashed up and ordered them to desist.

  15. Should troublesome bleeding take place from the coronary arteries, a needle is to be passed so as to transfix their extremities.

  16. Me, then, my courage prompted to approach The monster with my sword drawn from the sheath, And to transfix him where the vitals wrap The liver; but maturer thoughts forbad.

  17. But now, with darts of anguish ye transfix My inmost soul, and I have no redress.

  18. Go, child," I said, "transfix the timorous dove!

  19. He thought he was surrounded by Germans and tried to transfix his comrades with the bayonet.

  20. Case 86 was entirely amnestic for an attack of hallucinations in which he tried to transfix comrades with a bayonet.

  21. He says we transfix the lips of the incisions with two hooks and gradually dissecting with the scalpel we free the vessel from the underlying fascia.

  22. That blessed fear thy love can calm; Transfix me with thy shining spear And heal me with thy holy balm!

  23. Don't strike too quickly, or bedad you may transfix a hound instead of the marauding animal.

  24. I see the time at hand when a descendant of mine will be called into Italy, and the spear that Judas jousted with[38] shall transfix the bowels of Florence.

  25. Dante saw one of the monsters leap up and transfix a man through the nape of the neck; when, lo!


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transfix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    balance; ballast; bayonet; bite; bore; broach; counterbalance; dagger; drill; fascinate; firm; fix; freeze; gore; gouge; hold; hole; honeycomb; immobilize; impale; keep; knife; lance; needle; penetrate; perforate; pierce; pink; prick; punch; puncture; ream; retain; riddle; seize; skewer; spear; spike; spit; stab; stabilize; steady; stick; tap; transfix