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Related words

Harpoons | Harpoon | Harpooned

Harpoons meaning

plural of harpoon

Using Harpoons

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of harpoon
  • In the example corpus, harpoons often appears in combinations such as: harpoons and, and harpoons.

Context around Harpoons

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

explosive 1× used 1× held 1× game 1×

Often after:

slung 1×

Sentence patterns with Harpoons

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

arnold who harpoons a shot 1× between the harpoons and the 1× dart their harpoons and flask 1× darts and harpoons slung from 1× fire like harpoons and are 1× hand held harpoons and killed 1× harpoons were invented 1× hunt game harpoons and toxic 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

arriving at kanam 1× cnidarians are distinguished 1× eventually seal hunters 1× greenpeace activists disrupted 1× harpoons were invented 1× once they found 1×

Common sentence endings:

abundant food supply 1× across the world 1× from shoulder guns 1× from throwing boards 1× fruit and nuts 1× ice or land 1×

Words around Harpoons

Just before it in the word index:

harpooneers 2 harpooned 8 harpoon 51 harpon 9 harpocrates 2 harpo 42

Just after it in the word index:

harpootlian 7 harpreet 25 harpring 2 harps 70 harpsichord 65 harpsichordist 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aanand 16 abcd 16 abdurrahman 16 aberdour 16 abergele 16 abg 16

Corpus analysis for Harpoons

  • In this selection, "harpoons" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, explosive, used, held and slung stand out and add context to how "harpoons" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include arnold who harpoons a shot and between the harpoons and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "harpoons" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with harpoons

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

They are typically caught with nets, trawls and harpoons. (9 words)

The three harpooneers dart their harpoons, and Flask delivers the mortal strike with a lance. (15 words)

Weapons The Aleuts hunted small sea mammals with barbed darts and harpoons slung from throwing boards. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Harpoons were invented and used for the first time during the late Middle Paleolithic (c. 90,000 years ago); the invention of these devices brought fish into the human diets, which provided a hedge against starvation and a more abundant food supply. (42 words)

Once they found a whale, they typically sailed up to it, fastened to it with hand-held harpoons, and killed it either with hand-held lances or (beginning in the late 1850s) fired bomb lances into them from shoulder guns. (40 words)

Some short, probing passing across Ipswich’s 18-yard line between Diaz, Mac Allister and Salah ends when Salah rolls the ball into the path of Alexander-Arnold who harpoons a shot with his right instep over the bar. (39 words)

Example sentences (13)

As much as it’s a joy to watch Statham slinging explosive harpoons from a jet ski, Meg 2 offers only scattershot pleasures.

Some short, probing passing across Ipswich’s 18-yard line between Diaz, Mac Allister and Salah ends when Salah rolls the ball into the path of Alexander-Arnold who harpoons a shot with his right instep over the bar.

Arriving at Kanam and Kanjera in 1935, they found that the iron markers Louis had used to mark the sites had been removed by the Luo tribe for use as harpoons and the sites could not now be located.

Cnidarians are distinguished from all other animals by having cnidocytes that fire like harpoons and are used mainly to capture prey.

Eventually, seal hunters used harpoons to spear the animals from boats out at sea, and hooks for killing pups on ice or land.

Greenpeace activists disrupted the whaling by placing themselves between the harpoons and the whales, and footage of the protests spread across the world.

Harpoons were invented and used for the first time during the late Middle Paleolithic (c. 90,000 years ago); the invention of these devices brought fish into the human diets, which provided a hedge against starvation and a more abundant food supply.

Once they found a whale, they typically sailed up to it, fastened to it with hand-held harpoons, and killed it either with hand-held lances or (beginning in the late 1850s) fired bomb lances into them from shoulder guns.

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The only hunting tools widely available to humans during any significant part of the Paleolithic period were hand-held spears and harpoons.

The three harpooneers dart their harpoons, and Flask delivers the mortal strike with a lance.

They are typically caught with nets, trawls and harpoons.

They used bows and arrows to hunt game, harpoons and toxic plants for fishing and gathered wild plants, yams, honey, fruit and nuts.

Weapons The Aleuts hunted small sea mammals with barbed darts and harpoons slung from throwing boards.

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Common combinations with harpoons

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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What does "harpoons" mean?
Harpoons means: plural of harpoon
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