Example sentences for: swords

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

  • "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 ...

  • We may guess that as the King's company realized they were under attack, the men looked to their swords, and one of the other ladies shouted to Katie, who finding that the bar was not there, did the best she could think to do.

  • 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.

  • On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk — armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones — attacked and captured the local French garrison.


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