Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

bayonet

[bey-uh-nit, -net, bey-uh-net] / ˈbeɪ ə nɪt, -ˌnɛt, ˌbeɪ əˈnɛt /
VERB
stab
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Miller “soon put the enemy to flight at the point of a bayonet, capturing their colors and most of their arms,” Mr. Hemming writes, quoting Cochrane’s 1859 autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Consequentially, a gap in a bone might be a wound from a musket ball or a bayonet - or it might not be.

From Washington Times Apr. 14, 2023

No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2022

The bayonet had to go, perhaps, because there had been complaints that the statue “should carry a wreath instead of a rifle,” said a Seattle Times story in Oct.

From Seattle Times Jul. 12, 2022

They haven’t seen the gold lace on the generals, those muskets—all so alike, and everyone has a bayonet.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

“My father thinks that the reason he didn’t speak about it was the fact that he was bayoneted and gassed and it left such a horrible impression upon him.”

From New York Times Aug. 20, 2021

One of his biggest regrets, besides being bayoneted, “was in the excitement I had run out of film in my camera,” Norlander said.

From Washington Times May 16, 2020

By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their 40-lb. combat packs, 240 rounds of ammunition, bayoneted rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Dick took the bayoneted rifle of a soldier who was much delighted at having a brief opportunity for sleep thus thrust upon him.

From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

They carry muskets, but they’re not shooting or bayoneting.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2016

For the cynics on here this guy has just lost his wife, I think your bayoneting the wounded, what must it be for him to read rotten comments at this time in his life.

From BBC May 30, 2015

After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the Emperor of the East had all the gold, the Government Bank only protected itself from failure by bayoneting its creditors.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Through Red Square pranced hundreds of hardy steeds, their riders dressed like Cossacks and waving long, bayonetted rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

U. S. Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted.

From Time Magazine Archive

These soldiers all wore the same stern, tense expressions and handled their bayonetted rifles nervously, as if they were in the camp of the enemy.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

"Yes, sir!" the soldier appeared in the doorway, carrying his bayonetted gun.

From The Whispering Spheres by R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

I believe under Providence, that the ludicrousness of this attack saved us from being bayonetted on the spot.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various




Vocabulary lists containing bayonet


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training