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“However, fallen trees remain impaled into homes, tangled in electrical wires and everywhere else imaginable.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Tyler Colvin in stable condition after being impaled by bat
“He had trouble at first understanding her explanation, since his English vocabulary didn't include "impaled".”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sent by her Johannesburg newspaper to poke fun at Terre'Blanche, at a time when the iniquities of apartheid were finally being redressed, she penned a breathlessly flattering profile in which she confessed to being "impaled" by his "blowtorch blue eyes".”
“Sent by her liberal-leaning Johannesburg newspaper to poke fun at Terreblanche, at a time when the iniquities of apartheid were finally being redressed, she penned a breathlessly flattering profile in which she confessed to being 'impaled' by his 'blowtorch blue eyes'.”
“Allan confessed to being 'impaled' by Terreblance's 'blowtorch blue eyes”
“I wish I had sent him to the mollahs; we might have been amused with his being impaled, which is a rare object now-a-days. ”
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Murdered, you say?
Terms of homicide; weapons, poisons, synonyms &c.
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Wordie Working Overtime - some words ...
Some words of from XTC songs that I like or for some reason stand out. That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.
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