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How to use lance in a sentence

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Twelve of Poland's divisions were cavalry, armed with lance and sabre, and they were no match for tanks.
It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with lance shaped leaves that are purplish when young and flushed with colour in autumn.
He also finds some of the rare and unique snakes in his journey, which includes eyelash viper, the fer de lance and the bushmaster.
Two years earlier he had made his debut in the bullring as a rejoneador, a bullfighter on horseback who carries a lance to kill the bull.
One of the women hands me a sharp metal lance, something between a sword and a skewer.
The man, upon seeing a knight rigged out in full armor sticking a lance in his face, fears for his life.
He equipped his cavalry with pistols, abandoning the obsolete lance, and began to concentrate standardized artillery pieces in batteries.
Also popular was pig-sticking, the dangerous sport of riding on horseback to hunt wild boar by sticking them with a lance.
As a lance corporal whose enlistment was nearly over, he knew he would have to re-up in the reserves in order to qualify for education benefits.
It observes the privates and lance corporals of the army, as well as its generals and marshals.
The heads of bays, spits, and cuspate forelands provide breeding areas for fish such as sand lance and surf smelt.
I was assailed by three Cossacks, and while keeping them at bay with my lance, a fourth came up to their assistance.
At the high school level, the first rank is recruit, followed by private, lance corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant and company sergeant major.
We don't see lances with vamplates until the 14th century, so until that point, any spear is a potential lance as well.
The edge of the central hole is pierced with three holes for the nails that attached the vamplates to a lance.
The first team to dismount one of the opposing team's penguins with a jousting lance is declared the winner.
We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
Upon arrival, you will be trained in swordsmanship, but axe and lance training will be available if you so wish.
The flowers are clusters of bell-shaped blossoms on stems that rise above the foliage, leaves being deep green and either oval or lance shaped.
The tip of his lance got caught by the serrations of her sword, and he wrenched it out of her grasp, thinking he had won.
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The mere thought of surgical instruments, a bistoury or a lance, makes me dizzy.
The warrior uttered a grunt of pain, cast a surprised angry stare at the shaveling of a Paddy, and thrust with his lance.
Every man of them wore linked mail, with shield and lance and sword, while at every saddlebow hung a mace or battleaxe.
Besides these were fifty of the plainer sort, and there lacked not crossbow, lance and arquebus.
His left arm swung helplessly and he could not climb the limbless lower trunk of a lance tree with only one arm.
This was Harpalion, son of the King of Paphlagonia, who charged at him, lance in hand.
The day of the sword and pilum had given place to that of the lance and bow.
To dart a lance at mythomania is his delight, while preserving the impassibility of a Parnassian.
The crest, a sinister arm in armour, grasping a broken lance, on a torse of the colours.
The bridegroom on horseback, lance in hand, proceeded to break the toran, which was defended by the damsels of the bride.
Guy, advancing as gaily as if he had been in the tiltyard at Wark, gallantly unhorsed one Saracen with the point of his lance.
And he can ride a horse and hold a lance, can he not, at any rate in your quarrel?
And the King's halberdier stuck his lance through Niels Sture's eye, and thus gave him his death.
Every free layman having ten marks in chattels shall have a habergeon, iron cap, and lance.
Near the head of the lance is a gonfanon the fly of which is split into long tails.
But Lancers are usually no match against other cavalry, who can parry and ripost before the lance can resume the guard.
He had his bow and arrows with him but no lance, and it was getting too dusky for hunting.
As they fight on, kumara finds an opening, and slays Taraka with his lance, to the unbounded delight of the universe.
He seized a short knife and threw himself forward, rolling his body between that of the girl and the descending lance and cupper.
Without a word more he turned, and, relacing his helmet, spurred his horse at the Saracens with his lance in rest.
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