claymore

Example Sentences

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Findlay has promised to offer tax and spending cuts at the 2026 Holyrood election, saying he would "wield a claymore" on wasteful spending if elected.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

Other soldiers set claymore mines on small stands.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2018

Some on Twitter have taken to calling it a laser claymore.

From The Verge • Nov. 28, 2014

Alex Salmond wields no claymore sword and appears only sparingly in a kilt, and yet he has brought Scotland closer to independence than any Scottish warrior since union with England more than 300 years ago.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2014

I looked at where I had put the claymore and saw a figure moving away from it.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers