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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.
Jíbaros (country farmers) carry machetes to the fields, accompanied by their faithful hounds.
In Camagüey, the cattle-ranch province, rusty watermills punctuate the skyline and vaqueros (cowboys) slouch on horses with machetes and lassos at the ready.
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."
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.