Example sentences for: machete

How can you use “machete” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.

  • Alamo , the site of the Texas defeat by Santa Ana; hoosegow from juzgado `court'; dinero `money,' a Spanish corruption of the Latin denarius; macho , from the same root as machete : he who wields a machete must be skillful and powerful, hence the word has come to mean `virile' and its associated noun, machismo , `virility.

  • After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.

  • Brooke's derivation of machete from Spanish macho `male' is a folk etymology: the two words are unconnected and the correct etymology may be found on pp. 746-750 of vol.


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