A bad reaction to the medication can spike a temp within hours.

Several patients started to spike a temperature overnight, prompting the staff to check their vitals every hour.

Writers of Victorian novels often set dramatic scenes in Spike Park, drawing on its grim reputation as the Queen's Bench Prison in south London.

The salvage team pried several rail spikes from the ties to sell as scrap.

Researchers collected samples of spike poison to analyze its chemical defenses.

We included spike-ins to calibrate the sequencing results and monitor technical variability.

The dockworkers used heavy hand-spikes to lever the crates onto the ship.

The sailmaker reached for the marlin-spikes to splice the heavy rope.

He used a marline spike to separate the strands of the rope before splicing them.

The sailor used a marling spike to loosen the tight knot in the rope.