bayonet

Example Sentences

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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

The officers pulled him over on the 500 block of South Capitol Street SW and saw a bayonet and machete inside his truck.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2021

Nate quickly ripped off the coat and silver hat and tossed them into a bush, along with the musket and bayonet.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis