bayonet

Example Sentences

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He was invited by HBO to snoop around sets in New York and earmark items — say, the bayonet sword hanging on the wall of Logan Roy’s office — that should be set aside.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2024

No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 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 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

They haven’t seen the gold lace on the generals, those muskets—all so alike, and everyone has a bayonet.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes