How to Use lance in a Sentence

lance

1 of 2 noun

• Um dos lances mais bonitos da nossa história.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• But one day, Averill and his friends came across a lance in their path.
  — Outside Online, 10 May 2020
• The goal was to use the lance to knock the other competitor off their horse.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• The washer includes a spray gun and spray lance, plus a high-pressure hose.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
• Everybody knows about the fer-de-lance, which is the deadly pit viper.
  — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2013
• Bottom cleaners use lances to scrape biofoul off hulls.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
• The sharp lance has been a big help, and getting blackheads out is much easier.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 21 Jan. 2023
• This is the scene that began the running joke of Pod's huge trouser lance.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 12 Sep. 2017
• Warhorses charge, lances down, crashing through the tilts as lances break on shields and men topple from their steeds.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Others used machetes to hack off spear and lance points, and then decapitate their foes.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• Above the birdlike forefoot of a knight, Above Quixote’s birdlike lance.
  — Osip Mandelstam, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Many gig workers are free-lance workers like designers, artists and writers.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• When demonstrating, the widow wields a rainbow flag like a lance and glares at passersby who fail to pick up a leaflet.
  — Monika Rębała, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020
• Louis offered a vast sum for the Crown of Thorns and parts of the lance, the sponge, and the Cross.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• So, in the end, one of the dragons died—hit with some sort of doomsday White Walker lance.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 21 Aug. 2017
• Nancy worked for the phone company and was an avid free-lance photographer.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 13 July 2018
• Carrie Napoleon is a free-lance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 4 July 2017
• Carrie Napoleon is a free-lance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2017
• Its glossy, lance-shape leaves arch gracefully from a central clump of stems, and can be plain green or variegated.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2022
• Their sizes range from 4 inches to 4 feet tall, and their heart- and lance-shaped leaves can be smooth, wavy, or variegated.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
• Garrett Johnston has covered 30 majors as a free lance writer for ten years.
  — Garrett Johnston, Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2020
• The knights are not humans but New Zealand giraffe weevils, a species of beetle with a snout like a lance.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• Along this walk, symmetrically spaced, are four lances jutting skyward.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
• But weapons were limited at the site, with only some arrowheads, a lance-head and some sword fittings recovered.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 May 2018
• The thermal lance Caan uses to penetrate the safe was Santucci’s own burning bar.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
• Echoes of the legend raise the question of whether the lance buried with the woman at Gerdrup was actually a sorceress’ staff.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• The fact that the woman was buried with what appeared to be a lance helped overturn scholars’ assumptions about gender in Viking society.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• The only obvious evidence so far—and even here not all archaeologists agree—are wooden spears or lances known from three sites only.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 June 2018
• At a handful of locations, these spikes extended out to nearly a meter, looking more like lances than anything needed to ward off a close-in attack.
  — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
• The same deadline applies for a lot of 1099 forms for miscellaneous income, such as those covering free-lance work.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2020

lance

2 of 2 verb

• He had the boil on his arm lanced.
• Boils that must be lanced, or at least scabs that itch to be picked.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Asking a question that lanced through his core.
  — Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2025
• The jet lanced the side of the tanker; the impact was shattering.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Also, the lancets need to be the right design for your lancing device.
  — Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• Sivas begins with apartment blocks and minarets lancing a peach sky shaded with haze.
  — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
• The rumor was a man had died, he’d been caught beneath the rubble when lightning lanced the steeple.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Plus, the cost of blood testing strips and lancing devices can really add up.
  — Amy Stanford, Health, 20 Apr. 2023
• There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
  — Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Use the lancing device (with a new lancet each time) to obtain a drop of blood from the side of your fingertip.
  — Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 30 June 2026
• Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• One of the things the theater should be doing today, and rarely does, is lancing the boil of our own self-deception.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• My ex-partner used to poke me in the belly to create a metaphorical release, like lancing a boil.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• Less than 30 seconds later came the shriek of the two missiles that lanced through Turmus’ car.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
• Powered from within, grass seedlings lance out roots and stems, beating any competition.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• Her symptoms were pretty challenging—a series of painful nodules that needed to be lanced and drained.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 12 Dec. 2024
• Oruç fled, only to be found hiding in a goat pen, where a Spanish soldier first lanced him and then beheaded him.
  — National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2019
• His goal of lancing the boil of the Catalan separatist movement through these elections has backfired.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017
• But an Israeli missile lanced through his house, killing the 23 people inside, including more than a dozen women and two children.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• This week, an Israeli missile lanced through his house, killing the 23 people inside, including more than a dozen women and two children.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• Friday, when Lebanese officials say two Israeli missiles lanced through the Zahra family‘s three-story building.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Penn, giving a brilliant performance of cold villainy that could win him a third Oscar, is unafraid of lancing the inherent goofiness of a fascist.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
• Once it was settled on the ocean floor, the black, white, and Tonka-truck-yellow contraption began grinding its way forward, its lights lancing through the darkness, steel treads biting into the silt.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• His maiden first-class — let alone Test — century was confirmed with a tension-lancing scythe over midwicket in the final session, writes Dominic Fifield.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Cajazeira had spirited the former president from his quarters aboard the government steamship that had picked them up at the camp of a rubber baron and operated immediately, lancing Roosevelt’s abscess and draining it.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• They were lanced by the Vegas Golden Knights, 5-1, and eliminated from the playoffs in Game 6 of their second-round series after falling behind by three goals in the first period.
  — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 15 May 2026
• In this way, Washington could finally lance the boil of militant Islamism, which had afflicted America ever since the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.
  — Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023