How to Use harpoon in a Sentence

harpoon

noun

• The heavy creature then swam back to the boat where the group was able to pull it up on deck with a harpoon and gaffs.
  — Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
• Back at home, the big harpoon still needs more testing.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2018
• When the whale was struck, more harpoons were thrown — all attached to floats — to keep the whale from diving.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019
• And the orcas needed the harpoons to finish off their prey.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• The monster truck is shown equipped with a harpoon and flamethrower for the battles on Fury Road.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2021
• Early missions tried harpoons and thrusters, and had a rough time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• Our guide handed them the tip of a harpoon and then pointed out the window to Mount Greylock off in the distance.
  — Dinaw Mengestu, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2021
• And if this doesn't work, then maybe the giant space harpoon will eliminate space junk.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2019
• As a result, Navy ships were limited to just eight Harpoons at a time.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2017
• Stafford worked to hook another line into the reptile, then Bellinger tried to jab its neck with a harpoon.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 23 July 2018
• Cusack and Streeter would team on three other projects that delivered harpoons to the heart.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• In the ocean, jellyfish can shoot out their harpoons about 100 times as fast as the shrimp, but the action is not repeatable.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• The large satellite will attempt to recapture the smaller satellites with a harpoon and a net.
  — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• Concepts include the space equivalent of a net, a magnet, or a harpoon.
  — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2023
• Out on the sea hunting a whale with a harpoon, or lost in our cyber world, human beings are still tackling the same issues.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The satellite will use a net and harpoon to try and clear up some of thousands of pieces of debris currently orbiting Earth.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• At this point, Hinderliter was given a large harpoon with a detachable head affixed to a rope and a float.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2023
• Here is how they’re sourced: Wild: There are bluefin tuna that are caught in the wild in a number of ways, from purse seine (a large netting), to trolling (luring through lines of bait) and harpoon gear.
  — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Lifeguards were given shotguns and harpoons and long lines baited with dead lambs.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 31 May 2017
• Brower felt the shuddering harpoon enter the whale’s body.
  — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• Yet what looked like a mega-gaffe with Hannity turned out to be Giuliani taking a harpoon for the President.
  — Dana Bash, CNN, 31 May 2018
• Their company owns a harpoon fishing boat, the Pilikia, which is harbored in San Diego.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• The satellite will launch a handful of small cubesats to act as targets, and the main satellite will attempt to capture them with both a giant net and a harpoon.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2018
• DeOrbit would snare big pieces of space junk using a net or harpoon and dispatch them Earthward.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2015
• Then everything rests on the acuity of the striker in the bow, who holds a darting gun loaded with an exploding harpoon.
  — Author: Julia O'Malley, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Skomal leaned from the 11-foot-long pulpit with the harpoon, which ended in a titanium dart attached to two tags.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• In 19th-century Australia, a pod of killer whales was known to herd baleen whales into a bay near a whalers’ settlement, then slap their tails to alert the humans to ready the harpoons.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• There’s a harpoon here, a miniature sailboat there, plus cozy alcove tables whose mirrors show the patina of age.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Some of the ideas proposed include using nets to gather junk, harpoons to spear and retrieve objects, and robotic arms.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
• That crime surfaces again as all sorts of sordid shenanigans — blackmail, dirty business takeovers and so on — go down once Rufus’ loyal assistant winds up dead with a harpoon in his chest.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024