Example sentences for: sword

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

  • In sixteenth-century Europe a matachin was a masked dancer, an entertainer who danced with a sword.

  • What all the several ills, that visit earth, Plague, famine, fire, could not reach unto, The sword, nor surfeits, let thy fury do.

  • The ceremonial sword of state, mace, and oar are kept here and used at the opening of parliament, held each year in early November.

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

  • 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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