Example sentences for: samurai

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

  • The Tokugawa reaction was characteristic: a reinforcement of the austere values of the samurai and a rigorous clamp-down on the merchants’ high life.

  • A special combination ticket is available for both Himeji Castle and nearby Koko-en, a superb landscaped garden built in 1992 by a Kyoto-based master gardener on the site of a former samurai residence.

  • The simple, serene style of landscaping, with rocks, gravel, and a few shrubs, draws on the precepts of Zen Buddhism that had such a special appeal for the austere samurai.

  • Ever since the Tokugawa shoguns restricted performances to the samurai classes, noh drama has had a rather elitist appeal.

  • The horseman is like a samurai Terminator; dismounted, he comes at his victims relentlessly, from all angles.


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