What is "skewered"

Usage examples of "skewered".

The evening air was heavy with the tantalizing smell of roasted spiced meats, and by common consent, Thella and the herder joined the lines, waiting for a skewered slab of the seasoned meat.

To the blare of horns, down they charged, a hundred riders, lances low, and when those long spears became entangled or snapped apart as they skewered the enemy, out came flashing swords.

The drow carried a large trident, and on the end of the trident, still wriggling in the last moments of his life, was Pwent's skewered Gutbuster.

Waillan Micanty had put one ballista bolt through the window of a pirate captain's quarters at four hundred yards and had skewered the pirate captain as the man was buckling on his cutlass.

Entreri saw the man lift something slender-a wand, he supposed-but then all he saw was a tumble of arms and legs as the skewered swordsman crashed into the wizard and both went flying away.

As the second wolf leaped at him, it skewered itself on the axe's pointy tip.

If he had been standing with his back to a wall, he'd have been thoroughly skewered, no doubt.

Had he relied on the tree for cover, the expertly aimed arrow would have skewered him through the eye.

Had she not had the training of Discipline, she would probably have been crushed against fang-face, possibly skewered on a finely sharp claw.

All the fruit drinks, sweet or not, had kebabs of fresh fruit skewered on little plastic swords floating in them.

She built a little fire and, with sharpened twigs, skewered slices of the liver.

Carefully she made slits and skewered the hide to the clips, symmetrically, so that one side wasn't pulled tighter than another lest it make an uneven tone along the outside of the drum and a sour one in the center.

He met the guard’s rush with a stop thrust and skewered the man through the chest.

For the one murdering animal 1 might have laid out, five others would have instantly skewered me.

The woodcutter who had skewered his first wereleopard moved off with a swagger, and the others followed, except one.