musketeer

Example Sentences

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Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

The story finally kicks into gear when the musketeer Athos, played by Ben Cunis, reads a letter about his son’s misfortune even as we watch it playing out in a gorgeous slow-motion battle.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2016

The instigator is that musketeer of the digital age, the whistleblower.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

The Daily Telegraph says the report into the case laid blame on "musketeer" midwives who were on a quest to pursue "natural childbirth at any cost".

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2015

Before long, the man-at-arms, the musketeer, and the artilleryman attained a consequence which the ordinary fighting man had never had before.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston