swordsman

Example Sentences

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Not to worry, though: Sargon is just as slick a swordsman, with the ability to swing two blades at once, pull off superhuman acrobatics and even stop and rewind time.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024

Cyrano de Bergerac is, we are told, a “soldier, poet, philosopher, magician, playwright … and the best swordsman in Paris.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Cyrano is a talented poet and an excellent swordsman who is secretly in love with a woman named Roxane, who is a lover of poetry herself.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2021

He had Jewett read “The Book of Five Rings,” by Japanese swordsman and philosopher Miyamoto Musashi.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2021

And Books, the clever Volantene swordsman who always seemed to have his nose poked in some crumbly scroll, thought the dragon queen both murderous and mad.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin