How to Use impale in a Sentence

impale

verb

• If that weren’t bad enough, she is impaled by a hook, which pulls her out of her ride.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
• The pole flew under her car and impaled her in the stomach.
  — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
• The jaws were likely used to pin and impale their helpless prey.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
• His son later found his mom hunched over in a nearby barn, impaled on the rake.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• There’s even duck boats now, albeit with goons impaled by an anchor and buoy.
  — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
• Heads get crushed, fingers get cut off, bodies get impaled, and more.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 7 May 2026
• There, deputies found a person lying on the ground with a knife impaled on the left side of her body.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2024
• The latter leads Alice to impale her hand on a rusty nail from a fence.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• Lean too hard on one wall of the kitchen, and you might actually be impaled.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
• But the thrill in this bull run is not being trampled by a stampede or impaled by horns.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 1 July 2018
• To the shock and horror of all, the distraught knight impales himself on his sword.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
• Turns out, Agatha was pushing her down to save her from being impaled by a sword.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
• An Italian track cyclist was impaled by a piece of wood that had come up on the track.
  — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• Throats are slit, noses are bitten off, torsos are impaled, and one dude has his head clamped in a bear trap.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• Some of them have tennis balls impaled on the curved metal runners at the front, called kufens.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2018
• There are now creatures impaled on pikes amidst flames, and a large castle-like city is ruined.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
• At the next practice, Jones impaled his left hand on the screw and needed a tetanus shot.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Their necks were broken and they were dragged away to the bush to be impaled, their bowels punctured.
  — Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
• Each of her glass slippers is outfitted with a nail that would impale the heel of any would-be princess.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
• Workers who fall can — and sometimes do — get impaled on those rods, Mejia noted.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
• In the game, Joel falls off a balcony and gets impaled on a piece of metal, but in this episode he gets stabbed.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• Half of their roof caved in, and a neighbor’s fence impaled the wall of Katelyn’s bedroom.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, 10 Nov. 2019
• Valle had crashed it into a steel light pole and was going so fast that half of the car had been impaled by the pole, police say.
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
• Other anglers prefer tube jigs or a jig with a tiny minnow impaled through its dorsal fin.
  — Cory Schmidt, Outdoor Life, 15 Apr. 2026
• Those insects were armed with scythe-like jaws that researchers suspect the ant deployed to pin down or impale its prey.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
• Hoisted his body onto the spike of his mother’s bed frame in an effort to impale himself.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Doctors in India saved a man who was impaled by a 4-foot poll that went through his groin and out his neck.
  — Melanie Dadourian, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• Tabor, a pipefitter, crashed into a fence and was impaled in the abdomen by a two-inch pole.
  — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
• That’s when the Yankees impaled themselves on their pinstripes.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• After impaling Laurel in a fit of rage, Tyler has sealed his own fate.
  — Jane Lacroix, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025