Example sentences for: sword

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

  • If Muslims saw him as a righteous militant and Hindus as a brutal monster, neither denied him his title of “Sword of Islam. ”

  • Take Kenneth Branagh's four-hour film version of Hamlet . Having punctured Laertes and launched him over a balcony, Hamlet, in the climactic scene, impales Claudius with a flying sword, brains him with a swinging chandelier, and force-feeds him poison.

  • Vittorio Zucconi, Washington correspondent of La Repubblica of Rome, highlighted President Clinton's remark that 20 th century history is largely the history of massacres carried out in Europe by Europeans, and said that Europe is "once again forcing Americans to take up the sword and die for villages whose names they don't even know."

  • In one room of this wing a píthoi was found with a ceremonial dagger inside, alongside this lay a sword decorated with gold and crystal leading scholars to conclude that this was a preparation or contemplation room for the King.

  • When a Japanese sword he has purchased falls off his wall, he hefts it; mimes a fight while issuing strangled, samurailike cries; then has a brainstorm.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast