Example sentences for: sword

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

  • The scepter and sword were each papal gifts, the former in 1494 and the latter in 1507; these reinforced the links between Scotland and Rome.

  • 2. crown for king: metonymy:: blade for sword:?

  • It’s believed that both the 14th-century gilded orb and the 16th-century sword are replacements of the original regalia that was lost.

  • In fact, he did: "Gladius Dei," an early story, tells of a strange young man raging in disgust and envy at pornographic art in a gallery window and resolving to bring down a fiery sword on a rotten world.

  • Thousands of young women helped to build the church of God with their body, blood and bones when frenzied fathers, husbands or fiancés preferred to see them die by fire, sword or the fangs of wild beasts rather than live to flout [sic] the duty and destiny of womanhood.


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