bayonet
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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
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
He was drafted in 1942 and suffered his only Army wound while in basic training, when he accidentally cut his leg with a bayonet.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 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
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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