bayonet
Example Sentences
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Many Memphians still remember the arrival of the National Guard, pictured with rifles and bayonets, during the political upheaval of 1968, including the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. here.
In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.
From Los Angeles Times
A few months after the order was issued, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway in Los Angeles carrying rifles and shiny bayonets.
From New York Times
Jagged rows of bayonets may borrow from Cubism’s fractured perspective, but here they chiefly mean clamor and noise.
From New York Times
One of them put Madison’s tricorner hat on the point of a bayonet and said if they could not capture “the little president,” they could still parade his hat through London.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
