Example sentences for: swords

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

  • Although swords, bows, and arrows remained the mainstays of warfare, suddenly matchlocks, muskets, and cannons made their appearance.

  • The interior décor now says much more about the Victorians’ romantic image of Scotland than it does about how the room would have really looked: The walls are lined with suits of armor and swords.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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