banzai

Example Sentences

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Last September, hundreds of people gathered at a court in Shizuoka, a city on Japan's south coast, where a judge handed down the acquittal - to loud cheers of "banzai", or "hurray" in Japanese.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

The Japanese fired mortars and large artillery ahead of banzai charges by fearless soldiers willing to run into the Americans’ Browning machine guns.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

“We thought it was a banzai attack but parrots had moved in on us. They were objecting to us being there. There were hundreds of them.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2020

John Sidur rescued two hometown buddies during Japan’s largest banzai attack of the war, near the end of the Battle of Saipan in July 1945.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2017

Sometimes it would be in force in a banzai attack.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac