Example sentences for: sword

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

  • homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!

  • Such was the incredible cutting power of the Japanese sword — embellished perhaps a bit by Japanese superstition.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In The Bride of Lammermoor (Chapter VI) Bucklaw vows, “I will chop them off with my whinger,” and one feels quite let down when he learns that a whinger is but a whinyard, which is merely a short sword.


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