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Among the accessories are a revolver, compass, fishing rod, harpoon, spear and, of course, the yellow barrels (see the images below). Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024 The most recent shows the interior entryway of that house; an umbrella jar holds several walking sticks and two ancient Inuit harpoons with whale-bone barbs; on the wall above them hangs a gleaming nineteenth-century harpoon gun. Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024 Using their powerful tongues — which, at least among many Appalachian salamanders, shoot out like a harpoon — salamanders consume enormous quantities of insects. Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024 As the nudibranch tries to grasp its prey, the prey fires its tiny harpoons at the nudibranch. Helen Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for harpoon 

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“Harpoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harpoon. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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