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

An influential civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2021

I got up and took Father’s bayonet down from the wall over the mantlepiece.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier