SHEATHE in a Sentence
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29 example sentences for SHEATHE, such as:
1. The television was sheathed in a snug coverlet.
2. She slid the sheath from the short sword and swiped toward him.
3. The dirk mentioned by Wolf Larsen rested in its sheath on my hip.
4. He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.
5. He drew down the thin silk sheath, slowly, carefully, right down and over her feet.
2. She slid the sheath from the short sword and swiped toward him.
3. The dirk mentioned by Wolf Larsen rested in its sheath on my hip.
4. He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.
5. He drew down the thin silk sheath, slowly, carefully, right down and over her feet.
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Meanings and Examples of SHEATHE
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sheathe
v. plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
v. cover with a protective sheathing
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 "Come, come," said Andrea, "sheathe your sword, my fine fellow; there is no occasion to make such a fuss, since I give myself up;" and he held out his hands to be manacled.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
Context Highlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
2 She was in a silver sheath, the calyx of a lily, her piled hair like black glass; she had the fragility and costliness of a Viennese goblet; and her eyes were intense.
3 But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
4 At this moment, Heyward observed that the scout loosened his knife in its sheath, and lowered the muzzle of his rifle.
5 He drew down the thin silk sheath, slowly, carefully, right down and over her feet.
6 A sheath-knife, still in its sheath.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
7 He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
8 Every one looked at Carlini; the sheath at his belt was empty.
9 He was naked, with the exception of cloth drawers at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath, and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge-hammer.
10 Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
11 A few seconds afterward d'Artagnan also went out enveloped in a large cloak, which ill-concealed the sheath of a long sword.
12 He spoke, and snatching his sword like lightning from the sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel.
13 So speaks he weeping, and ungirds from his shoulder the sword inlaid with gold, fashioned with marvellous skill by Lycaon of Gnosus and fitly set in a sheath of ivory.
14 And at every step he feared that he had already died, that his soul had been wrenched forth of the sheath of his body, that he was plunging headlong through space.
15 Scarlett felt her courage and self-confidence ooze from her as she realized that the sword which had flashed between her and the world was sheathed forever.
Example Sentence:
1 Until he recognized the approaching men, he did not sheathe his dagger and hail them as friends.
2 The dirk mentioned by Wolf Larsen rested in its sheath on my hip.
3 A ganglion cyst is a fluid-filled tumor that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath, and that bulges beneath the skin, forming a protuberance.
4 She slid the sheath from the short sword and swiped toward him.
5 The television was sheathed in a snug coverlet.