Example sentences for: machetes

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

  • The paper's reporter on the spot, Richard Lloyd Parry, wrote that "warriors carrying spears, rifles and machetes displayed a severed ear and a human arm and offered me lumps of hearts and livers torn from the bodies of ethnic Madurese, who have become the target of a large-scale ethnic purge.

  • In Camagüey, the cattle-ranch province, rusty watermills punctuate the skyline and vaqueros (cowboys) slouch on horses with machetes and lassos at the ready.

  • Like: "A UN convoy that had left the headquarters to retrieve water from a warehouse turned back when it was attacked by militia members with M-16 assault rifles, machetes and clubs.

  • The piece argues that Americans are newly eager to embrace risk, and compares risky career moves and aggressive investing to " 'hard adventure' travel, where risk-seekers hack through jungles with machetes or scale the world's highest mountains."

  • Jíbaros (country farmers) carry machetes to the fields, accompanied by their faithful hounds.


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