bayonet

Example Sentences

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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

The soldier’s bayonet gleams in the moonlight and the extravagant feather emerging from his helmet rhymes and overlaps with the curve of a sail in the harbor.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022

Officers saw a bayonet and machete, which are illegal in the District of Columbia, inside the truck.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2021

Chang cited a 1933 speech by a Japanese general: “Every single bullet must be charged with the Imperial Way, and the end of every bayonet must have National Virtue burnt into it.”

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand