1.   For a moment he hesitated, savouring the moment, then centred the metal spike and pushed.

2.   Yellowing receipts had been impaled on a metal spike.

3.   French farmers habitually use metal spikes laid across the road to harrass lorry drivers carrying food imports.

4.   A hard hat can protect you from having a metal spike go through your skull and into your brain.

5.   A hollow metal spike is pushed through the pipe wall to tap into the water line.

6.   Girls, like metal spikes, were forbidden.

7.   In fact, the New England section of superintendents has banned the use of metal spikes in their monthly tournaments.

8.   It eliminates the indentations that metal spikes make in the greens.

9.   Many pros opted to use metal spikes this week, since the course was wetter than expected.