Example sentences for: samurai

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

  • This was the last stand of the samurai against the overthrow of their time-honored privileges.

  • Rent a copy of Seven Samurai , a fine movie, and you get the bonus.

  • One fascinating example of ritual suicide in 18 th century Japan that still regularly appears in movies and television in Japan is the story of the 47 samurai.

  • Also on the grounds are the Museum of Imperial Collections, an exhibition hall for art treasures donated to the public by the imperial family in 1989; and the “Hundred-Man Guardhouse,” where the approach to the inner sanctum of the fortress was defended by four shifts of 100 samurai warriors each.

  • The Tokugawa had successfully persuaded the samurai that traditional Japanese values might suffer, and now the samurai felt betrayed, rallying under the slogan “Sonno joi! ”


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