bayonet
Example Sentences
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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
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
The soldier’s bayonet gleams in the moonlight and the extravagant feather emerging from his helmet rhymes and overlaps with the curve of a sail in the harbor.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023
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 dropped down three stories to the street and his bayonet stuck in the earth between two cobblestones.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
