bayonet
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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
In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
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
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
“He dropped down three stories to the street and his bayonet stuck in the earth between two cobblestones.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Vocabulary lists containing bayonet
The American Civil War
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Prisoner B-3087
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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