Example sentences for: swords

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

  • Others given victor's laurels included NATO, described by the London Observer as having "saved its reputation and credibility, gaining time to improve its effectiveness as a guarantor of peace"; and the new world order celebrated in Andrew Marr's column in the Observer , "What has happened is a decisive and perhaps terminal defeat for an older Europe, a place of tribal hatreds, double-headed eagles, flaming swords and obscure martyrs.

  • There are cases filled with elaborate and witty helmets from the early 17 th century, shaped like the knobby turbo seashell or with rabbit ears appended; swords designed more to impress than to kill; saddles decorated with such whimsical and hardly threatening motifs as powder puffs and cosmetic brushes.

  • In the middle of the town is the Bagh Bhairav Temple, under the eaves of which are swords and shields from the 18th-century siege.

  • "That game where you 'cross swords' in the bathroom."

  • He can isolate his every sensation, indulge his every impulse, in the untested space on either side of the n and the l . He identifies himself as a Roman Catholic--not because he is one (his family is nondenominationally Christian) but "because of Rome, because of Horatius and his two comrades, swords in their hands, crested helmets on their heads, indomitable courage in their glance, defending the bridge ...


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