How To Use Impale In A Sentence

Tom Staple would have willingly been impaled before a Committee of the House, could he by such self-sacrifice have infused his own spirit into the component members of the hebdomadal board. Barchester Towers
Prey is not chewed or ground in the mouth: once it is impaled on the sharp teeth, it is swallowed whole.
Miraculously, Posada managed to find the ball, whirl and throw a perfect peg down to second to impale the Impaler.
Love that she was powerful enough to send Damon flying and impale him on a tree. 'The Vampire Diaries' recap: Damon's plan revealed | EW.com
He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.

However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo. Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market
She impaled a lump of meat on her fork.
And I, helplessly impaled upon it's keratinous trident! Grade A Twats
I’m trying to stay very optimistic and excited about the whole thing, but deep down I know that I’m going down in a blaze of gunfire, in a handbasket, that is on fire, and filled with electric eels, in the midst of a meteor shower, surrounded by my mother’s nagging voice, only to end it all by being impaled on a wrought iron fence. Whitehelmet Diary Entry
The aim is to grab hold of a rosette attached to the bull's head without being impaled. Times, Sunday Times
You plummet to the bottom screaming and are impaled on the spikes.
Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway.
Despite keeping such company, he did not hesitate to impale the rich and mighty on his pen.
Young fawns who can't jump the fence may impale themselves on the metal as they try to crawl underneath.
Although imbibing nothing stronger than orange juice, he later tripped and was almost impaled on a halberd.
I nearly died when I was 13 after I got impaled on a metal spike.
The icon refers not to the Transylvanian terror of lore but to the 15th-century feudal lord and mass murderer Vlad the Impaler, whose fiefdom was in Wallachia, a more southern region of Romania.
Amelia ducked and rolled to the side to avoid being impaled by Breanne's rapier, the fight now a melee.
She impaled a lump of meat on her fork.
Inspired by the classic magic trick of sticking knives (and not killing anyone), it features wooden “swords” that “impale” the unit as supports or racks for your clothes. Closet Organizers Inspiration
Male shrikes in Israel's Negev Desert impale snails and nest-building materials onto thorns to attract mates.
Perhaps it's all for the best that I be impaled on his hood ornament.
Aside from the spuds that were impaled on my spade after almost every thrust into the earth, these are on the menu for tonight along with roast butternut squash.
Within the Garter are impaled (dexter) the Arms of KING EDWARD VII. and (sinister) the undifferenced Arms of The Handbook to English Heraldry
The simple creatures hope he will impale his solar topee on a tree.
People passed between them holding umbrellas like lances, ready to impale body parts in their way, but she paid them no attention. Bliss
The slightest criticism generates an overwhelming impulse to impale myself on my microscope eyepieces.
The former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader who a newspaper columnist once said "impaled" her with his "blowtorch eyes", has swopped his dramatically delivered pro-racial segregation speeches and is now earning a living dispensing hints on how not to be negative. ANC Daily News Briefing
On the sixth bannerol was impaled, with the arms of the defunct, the arms of Mary his third wife, daughter of Sir George Cotton, Knt. vice chamberlain to King Ed. VI. Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
With the exception of the arms of the two queens, Eleanor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile, which appear impaled with the English royal arms on the Heralds' Roll, the early rolls never blazon the arms of women.
Guard cells were impaled with double-barrelled electrodes, one barrel being used to clamp the membrane potential with the dSEVC amplifier.
On the lifth bannerol was also the defunct's arms, impaled with the arms of Margaret his second wife, daughter of Ellis Barlow, Esq. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
Why is it when someone in a horror film is impaled on something sharp, like a fence post, they always feel the need to look up momentarily, catching one final glance at the object that has killed them?
When used in an impaled coat the bordure is not continued around the inner side.
one of the spikes impaled him
His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist.
You cannot impale your main character through the heart and have him continue to frolic about. Terminator Offers Some Lessons for the Salvation of Your Novel
One ballista impaled an ogre, bringing him down, and two of the catapult stones smashed others, but the rest came on. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
It's not going to impale you on its tree of thorns, y'know It's not going to impale you on its tree of thorns, y'know
Tullibardine, the son and successor of Sir David, enlarged the College of Tullibardine, and built that part where his arms and his lady's are impaled -- the three stars within the tressure for Murray, and a cross ingrailed for Colquhoun, finely cut in stone on the outside of the wall. Chronicles of Strathearn
Earl of Wanvick and Salisbury - The second bannerol was of George LordStanlcy andStrange, i the son and heir of the said Thomas, impaled I with the arms of Jane his wife, daughter and heir of John Lord Strange of Knockin. Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
For a single coat of arms the same hatchment might suffice for several generations but when a married couple's arms were impaled the hatchment could obviously only be used twice.
She impaled a piece of meat on her fork.
It touches the question of dimidiation or impalement in the coat of mine uncle, Sir John Leighton of Shropshire, who took unto wife the widow of Sir Henry Oglander of Nunwell. The White Company
Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus.
His blue-grey eyes were as cold as a Siberian winter, and Polly felt as though she had been impaled by twin icicles.
The cruel king used to impale his prisoners on sharp sticks.
On the foliated capital are four coats of arms, and the first has the lion within the double tressure, and the armorial bearings are usually supposed to be those of King James II. (1436-1460); the second, impaled, of his Queen, Mary of Gueldres (1449-1463); the third has also the lion within the double tressure and a label of three points, which is held to denote a prince or heir, if not a younger son. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
This particular story involves disappearing houses, old men crawling through the undergrowth, beautiful women impaled on railings and deception on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times
It's as if Vlad the Impaler had been selected to run Britain's blood bank.
Also the four-pointed contraptions called chevaux de frise, which -- however you throw them -- will always stick a fatal point upwards, to impale the horse or man who cannot or will not look where he is going. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front
Whatever he is, he can take at least two simultaneous impalements at the same time as three headshots.
Vampyre Update kare11.com :: KARE 11 TV - News Article Girlfriend of 'vampyre' gubernatorial candidate is fired: The partner of the new gubernatorial candidate, Jonathon 'The Impaler' Sharkey, says she's been unjustly fired from her job. Archive 2006-01-15
This while, to the same place came his orison-mutterer impaletocked, or lapped up about the chin like a tufted whoop, and his breath pretty well antidoted with store of the vine-tree-syrup. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway.
Anyway, now I have to wear shoes in the house, because I've already impaled my feet on tiny cutlasses, slipped on miniature cannon balls and "scuttled" a couple of galleons by not watching out where I was walking. Archive 2007-12-01
“Then come inhale some embarrassment,” she snarled, as the live-webcam ulcers spread up my spine and impaled my cornea with murky armpit stubble and ill-spent Euros. Study-A-Broad
The chicken was impaled on a stick which was secured upright in the ground and the can was placed over it.
In fact, it's inspiration - a deliciously fragrant, eat-over-the-sink ripe mango just dripping with juice - drew me in so quickly and with such force that the intended victim was instead impaled upon my spoon, rather than enrobed in batter. Wicked, Wicked Ways
When a prey is in sight, the mask is thrust forward and the prey instantly impaled on the hooks, then drawn back to the mouth and eaten.
Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half. Violence Vanquished
The bull charged, and of course the horse knew nothing till the picador failed and the horse found himself impaled on the bull's horns from beneath. The Madness of John Harned
He had trouble at first understanding her explanation, since his English vocabulary didn't include "impaled". Archive 2009-10-01
Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
Long stalactites menaced my head, and nasty little spikelike formations underfoot threatened to impale me if I should slip and fall. Perseus Spur
It is understood that the vehicle skidded after avoiding a car involved in another accident, mounted the verge and became impaled on a pole projecting from a crash barrier.
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
One head wearing a blue-glass burgonet with draggled golden plumes was impaled on the pike of its own standard. The Golden Torc
Tell him of lovelorn hearts, of the "worm I 'the bud," of the mental impalement upon Cupid's arrow, like that of a giaour upon the spear of a janizary, and he can only think of lack of exercise, of tightlacing, and slippers in winter. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
The medical student came upon an accident in a city street where he found the man, a wealthy entrepreneur, impaled by the shaft that joined his trap and horse.
In Germany in the good old days certain kinds of female criminals were "impaled," a punishment too grotesquely horrible for description, but likely enough considered by the simple German of the period conspicuously merciful. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
This Shield, represented in No. 328, has both the bordure on its dexter half, and the tressure on its sinister half, dimidiated by the impalement. The Handbook to English Heraldry
The company encountered further resistance from numerous binderies who likewise turned down the job of putting together the elaborate DVD package due to the inner sleeve design, which features an image of a nude woman impaled on a stake. Meat is Murder
He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
So the government is impaled on the horns of a dilemma.
His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist.
The slightest criticism generates an overwhelming impulse to impale myself on my microscope eyepieces.
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
The cruel king used to impale his prisoners on sharp sticks.
The aim is to grab hold of a rosette attached to the bull's head without being impaled. Times, Sunday Times
He was holding a stout branch, and impaled upon it was the bloody head of the leopard.
Besides a rack for kitchen utensils, there is only a stand on which are six large brown dishes with food for sale — salt shell-fish, in a black liquid, dried trout impaled on sticks, sea slugs in soy, a paste made of pounded roots, and green cakes made of the slimy river confervae, pressed and dried — all ill-favoured and unsavoury viands. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
We all dove for the marshmallows and impaled them to the end of out metal pokers.
This particular story involves disappearing houses, old men crawling through the undergrowth, beautiful women impaled on railings and deception on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times
In former times, prisoners' heads were impaled on pointed stakes.
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
In ancient Assyria, such miscreants were gibbeted, or impaled between the legs, on the sharp top of a pole planted upright in the ground, their screams heard for miles as their own body weight slowly drove the stake into them until they died. Obama's military victory.
But when he was quizzed about the murder, he told police the victim had ‘impaled himself’ on the knife when he took it out of his college folder to try to avoid being beaten up.
the enemies were impaled and left to die
He was holding a stout branch, and impaled upon it was the bloody head of the leopard.
The aim is to grab hold of a rosette attached to the bull's head without being impaled. Times, Sunday Times
It was then that I caught sight of a series of strange metal bars impaled within the side of the walls near the entrance of the corridor.
The last thing I want is to impale this dancing, living creature upon the stake of meaning.
For every dreary mention of a proximate erection, impale his private parts with the white-hot needle of a stingray, O Goddesses Divine of the Hippocrene! UPDATED: I've Been Tagged
I did not want to die impaled on a boom box during midair turbulence.
The dead deer was impaled on a spear.
She impaled a piece of meat on her fork.
-- Take him away; ganch him [5], impale him, rid the world of such a monster! The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
scarification" under pain of impalement, but it was resumed the moment he left Al-Asir. Arabian nights. English
* The "Saw" movies none of which I've seen, but I understand some of the premises are based on the notion of abominable choice sets: do the helpless victims cut-out one of their eyes to retrieve a key to unlock the nail-traps that will impale their skulls within 60 seconds - or instead accept their gory death? What is Real Freedom?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Their heads were impaled on Charles Bridge as a warning to others.
The viperfish is thought to use its sharp teeth to impale its victims by swimming at them at high speeds.
The young also cross paths with the loggerhead shrike, a bird that impales its prey before eating.
To stop transects from moving they were lightly impaled on a thin spike attached to the bottom of the dish.
She quickly punched the first one and jumped to the side as one tried to impale her with a spear.
Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
It is to be observed that _Bordures_ and _Tressures_, which are not affected by Quartering, are _dimidiated by Impalement_, -- that is, that side of both a Bordure and a Tressure which adjoins the line of The Handbook to English Heraldry
Another was the hoat, a puma-sized predator that impaled its prey on spikelike teeth that grew horizontally from its expansive mouth and flattened jaws. Dirge
Following trial, the jury awarded the 45-year-old plaintiff, who was impaled by a steel bar from the scrotum to L2 on his spinal cord, resulting in paraplegia and associated complications, $5 million for past pain and suffering, $10 million for future pain and suffering over 35 years, and $8,295,000 for future medical expenses. First Department
Mobs swarmed through streets of torched homes with Madurese heads impaled on sticks, as women cowered in nearby forests. Rule Of The Headhunters
She impaled a piece of meat on her fork.
Perhaps one of the most noteworthy forms of Japanese entertainment was the impalement of vaginas.
The cruel king used to impale his prisoners on sharp sticks.
Yellowing receipts had been impaled on a metal spike.
An 86-year-old American has made a stunning recovery after a gardening accident left him with a pair of pruning shears impaled through an eye socket deep into his skull.
-- In reply to your correspondent's Query as to _dimidiation_, he will find that this was the most ancient form of impalement. Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Not that I minded that part of it at all; she was an uncommon inventive amorist, and when you've been chief stud and bath attend-ant to Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, with the threat of boiling alive or impalement hanging over you if you fail to satisfy the customer, then keeping pace even with Susie is gammon and peas. Isabelle
Guard cells were impaled with double-barrelled electrodes, one barrel being used to clamp the membrane potential with the dSEVC amplifier.
Another was the hoat, a puma-sized predator that impaled its prey on spikelike teeth that grew horizontally from its expansive mouth and flattened jaws. Dirge
The aim is to grab hold of a rosette attached to the bull's head without being impaled. Times, Sunday Times
He had fallen and been impaled on some iron railings.
I took the apple from my coat pocket and impaled it on a dead branch.
The boy fell out of the window and was impaled on the fence.
I missed the door, however, and became impaled on the Frederick Hart sculpture.
The third bannerol was the arms of Thomas, the second Earl of Derby of that name, Lord Stan* • ley, Strange, and of Man, impaled with the arms of Anne his wife, daughter of Edward Lord Hastings, and sister to George Lord Hastings, the first Earl of Huntingdon of that name. Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
The chameleon will then dart out its long, sticky-tipped tongue, impale the insect and swallow it.
We shall have the bostangi bashi and a hundred other bashis here in a minute, and we shall be made to pay the price of blood; or, who knows, be hanged, or drowned, or impaled! The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
impale a shrimp on a skewer
He lunged the sword in her direction, stopping precisely before it impaled her throat.
Impale - This will cause the target to bleed and suffer damage over time.
Take your umbrella to the bookfest and be prepared to impale anyone who stands in your way on a rusty metal spike. Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge.
The chameleon will then dart out its long, sticky-tipped tongue, impale the insect and swallow it.
It is an impaled shield, but her arms appear on it in the dexter half - where normally the husband's would be shown - and his in the sinister, indicating the higher dignity of the blood that she brought to their union.
It should suffice to note that marshalling of arms is generally accomplished by either: dimidiation, impalement, quartering or superimposition.
He gave no heed to her or her words, but remained like one impaled; still, fixed, yet writhing, his features, his whole form and expression discolored, distorted with inward agony. The Missing Bride
OK, the blowie wont impale you with a horrible stinging thing, but they hover.
I'm going to be impaled on a million poisonous needles and die a slow, agonizing death.
This Shield, represented in No. 328, has both the bordure on its dexter half, and the tressure on its sinister half, dimidiated by the impalement. The Handbook to English Heraldry
They impale the chickens and leave big holes in the cages, allowing more chickens to fall out on the road to be hit by vehicles, if they are not killed outright by the fall itself.
But my blindly upswung hatchet met his falling knife and he impaled himself on my knife as he lunged in, his death-yell ringing like a peal of doom under the forest-roof. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Tell him of lovelorn hearts, of the "worm I 'the bud," of the mental impalement upon Cupid's arrow, like that of a giaour upon the spear of a janizary, and he can only think of lack of exercise, of tightlacing, and slippers in winter. Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
However, fallen trees remain impaled into homes, tangled in electrical wires and everywhere else imaginable. AMSET Bug Day
All that was left to Hamuul was to protect the three—no, he amended as another orc impaled Renferal with a polearm, pinning her to the earth—two night elf druids who still survived. The Shattering
His sword impaled one, but the weapon was wrenched aside as the leader flung the expendable one forward and raised his axe in both hands. The Gates of Thorbardin
Frequently, as here, the center finial consists of a ball impaled on a spire, on top of the urn and bell.
He had attended parties, and he had been impaled with hot pokers, and between the two, the hot pokers still held a narrow lead.
Fleming, a three-time Grammy Award winner who specializes in opera and lieder, provided constructive criticism to the singers after each of their individual performances in the master class, which was organized by the Office for the Arts. The American artist challenged the four student performers-Bridget Haile '11, M.chael D. Cherella' 11, Francesca R.L. Reindel '11, and Sofia M. Selowsky' 12-to "get out of the comfort zone" and to "impale" audience members with their singing. The Harvard Crimson | All Articles
A Yorkshire schoolboy cheated death after he was impaled on an iron spike that went straight through his throat.
Colvin, the Cubs 'baserunner at third, was struck by a piece of shattered bat ( "impaled" seems like too strong a term; "stabbed" is more accurate) as he scored. Tyler Colvin in stable condition after being impaled by bat
I say my arrow will impale your brain, now it comes.
In this illustration the inescutcheon is shown over the impaled arms, whereas His Grace bears it only over the family arms; and the doves here are pictured sable rather than argent.
A pensioner who survived being impaled on a metal fence-post was ‘critical but stable’ in hospital yesterday.
He fell out of the window and was impaled on the iron railings.
I fall down a staircase and get impaled by a sculpture of a cherub's arrow.
Joshua trees are monicots, grotesquely oversized lilies, with contorted limbs and trunks armored with spikes, which are used skillfully by the loggerhead shrike to impale its prey.
On the fifth baimerol was also the defunct's arms, impaled with the arms of Margaret his second wife, daughter of Ellis Barlow, Esq - On the sixth bannerol was impaled, with the arms of the defunct, the arms of Mary his third wife, daughter of Sir George Cotton, Knt. vice chamberlain to King Ed. VI. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
Known as a stylite, or one who lives on a pillar, he virtually impaled himself physically for a lifetime but thereby gained spiritual eternity.
This turned out to be a sort of latticework-patterned grouper thing of about three pounds, which I beached, not being sure whether it would bite me if it had the opportunity, impale me on a spine, or spit in my eye.
The medical profession's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
It is understood that the vehicle skidded after avoiding a car involved in another accident, mounted the verge and became impaled on a pole projecting from a crash barrier.
The ticca-gharry ponies were almost spent, and any resolute hand could have impelled them away from the carriage-pole with which the roans threatened to impale their wretched sides. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
Her transpierced vocal chords emitted a slight squeak as her mind registered the fact that she was immovably entangled and impaled more than twenty times.
Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment.
H. A., with true lovers 'knots entwining these two letters; the arms of H.nry VIII and Anne impaled; while below in the same compartment is a bull's head caboched. A Short Account of King's College Chapel
One of these, which I saw on the official seal affixed to the passport of a friend of mine lately returned from that place, is an instance of the obsolete practice of _dimidiation_; and is the more singular, because only the dexter one of the shields thus impaled undergoes curtailment. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc
The former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader who a newspaper columnist once said "impaled" her with his "blowtorch eyes", has swopped his dramatically delivered pro-racial segregation speeches and is now earning a living dispensing hints on how not to be negative. ANC Daily News Briefing
At one end of the grotto, an elf is impaled on a spike.
In 1599 he applied to impale his arms with those of his wife's family.
It's pretty impressive stuff; on the side of Manchester's old ship canal, a huge shard of silver seems to have fallen from the skies and impaled itself into a mass of matt black.

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