banzai
Example Sentences
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The daily “banzai runs” in Yuma, Ariz., that used to send hundreds of young men dashing across the scarcely marked border to overwhelm a few dozen U.S. agents were already a thing of the past.
From Washington Post
The island’s name became synonymous with the suicidal “banzai” charges that Japanese troops repeatedly threw against the Marines and Army soldiers fighting for the island.
From Washington Times
It would be July 9 before they were able to corner their enemy on the island’s northern end and, overcoming a desperate banzai charge, raise the Stars and Stripes.
From Seattle Times
Lower house members all stood up and chanted “banzai” three times in a dissolution ritual, then rushed out of the assembly hall.
From Washington Times
Other favored TV images included cinematic “banzai” runs, in which scores of migrants bull-rushed the international boundary through lanes of traffic.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
