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Harpooned | Harpoon | Harpoons

Harpooned meaning

simple past and past participle of harpoon

Using Harpooned

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of harpoon
  • In the example corpus, harpooned often appears in combinations such as: been harpooned, with harpooned, harpooned whale.

Context around Harpooned

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

1845 1×

Often after:

whale 2× humpbacks 1× animals 1×

Sentence patterns with Harpooned

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

already been harpooned 1× battles with harpooned animals 1× by a harpooned whale not 1× have been harpooned in three 1× hunted and harpooned 1× in 1845 harpooned humpbacks and 1× to be harpooned by their 1× with a harpooned whale prompts 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a lance was 1× although they knew 1× days later an 1× hishka who was 1× the boat is 1× the featured group 1×

Common sentence endings:

already been harpooned 1× chiefs before him 1× his whale boat 1× hunted and harpooned 1× near eden australia 1× the evidence itself 1×

Words around Harpooned

Just before it in the word index:

harpoon 51 harpon 9 harpocrates 2 harpo 42 harpley 2 harpists 3

Just after it in the word index:

harpooneers 2 harpoons 13 harpootlian 7 harpreet 25 harpring 2 harps 70

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 11 abacos 11 abboud 11 abbreviate 11 abdelkader 11 abdomens 11

Corpus analysis for Harpooned

  • In this selection, "harpooned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, 1845, whale, humpbacks and animals stand out and add context to how "harpooned" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include already been harpooned and battles with harpooned animals. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "harpooned" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with harpooned

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Although they knew that whales were harmless giants, they described battles with harpooned animals. (14 words)

The boat is being towed by a harpooned whale (not visible here), near Eden, Australia. (15 words)

The featured group is the New Orleans Whalers,” so expect to be harpooned by their lively sound. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Theories of the composition of the book have been harpooned in three ways, first by raising objections against the use of evidence and the evidence itself. (26 words)

The term devilfish was bestowed by whalers who shouldn’t have been surprised that this animal fought back “like the devil” when hunted and harpooned. (25 words)

Days later, an encounter with a harpooned whale prompts Pip, a little black cabin-boy from Alabama, to jump out of his whale boat. (24 words)

Example sentences (8)

Hishka, who was born in 1845, harpooned humpbacks and gray whales from canoes he carved himself, like other Makah chiefs before him.

The term devilfish was bestowed by whalers who shouldn’t have been surprised that this animal fought back “like the devil” when hunted and harpooned.

The featured group is the New Orleans Whalers,” so expect to be harpooned by their lively sound.

A lance was a weapon of war and it was also used to kill large marine animals after it has already been harpooned.

Although they knew that whales were harmless giants, they described battles with harpooned animals.

Days later, an encounter with a harpooned whale prompts Pip, a little black cabin-boy from Alabama, to jump out of his whale boat.

The boat is being towed by a harpooned whale (not visible here), near Eden, Australia.

Theories of the composition of the book have been harpooned in three ways, first by raising objections against the use of evidence and the evidence itself.

Common combinations with harpooned

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "harpooned" in a sentence?
An example: "Hishka, who was born in 1845, harpooned humpbacks and gray whales from canoes he carved himself, like other Makah chiefs before him." This page contains 8 example sentences with the word "harpooned" from authentic English texts.
What does "harpooned" mean?
Harpooned means: simple past and past participle of harpoon
How many example sentences with "harpooned" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 8 example sentences with "harpooned", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.