SWORD in a Sentence
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241 example sentences for SWORD, such as:
1. Gluttony kill more than the sword.
2. Ill air slays sooner than the sword.
3. Ill air slays sooner thant the sword.
4. Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
5. Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.
2. Ill air slays sooner than the sword.
3. Ill air slays sooner thant the sword.
4. Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
5. Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.
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Meanings and Examples of SWORD
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sword
n. a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He entered, and saw the whipped Candide, sword in hand, a dead man upon the floor, Cunegonde aghast, and the old woman giving counsel.
2 Azof was destroyed by fire, the inhabitants put to the sword, neither sex nor age was spared; until there remained only our little fort, and the enemy wanted to starve us out.
3 Baring had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
4 Ney drew his sword and placed himself at their head.
5 The sword of a cuirassier, which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to the song by killing the singer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
6 Ney borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and French.
7 Shouts despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more generals, an inexpressible terror.
8 Zieten putting France to the sword at its leisure.
9 Duhesme, the general of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew the prisoner.
10 Then he seeks for the appropriate word as one seeks for a sword.
11 Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.
12 Waterloo, by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in another direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
13 If glory lies in the sword converted into a sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
14 She picked up some old rags and her little lead sword from a box behind her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
15 While Eponine and Azelma were bundling up the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 Ill air slays sooner thant the sword.
2 Ill air slays sooner than the sword.
3 There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.
4 In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another.
5 Scanderbeg's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm.
6 An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword.
7 Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.
8 Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord.
9 Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
10 He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
11 The coach hit his man with the flat of my sword.
12 The potential financial boost is a double-edged sword.
13 The sword and mace were favourite weapons for hand - to - hand fighting.
14 Gluttony kill more than the sword.