How to Use bayonet in a Sentence

bayonet

noun

• No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• The three main types are side post, J-hook, and bayonet.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• But their long, lethal bayonets were fixed and ready for use.
  — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 19 May 2017
• And then the soldiers / drove bayonets through both her eyes . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Her choice of shoes, Louboutins in the same hue of green as her outfit, sported heels as pointy and spiked as a bayonet.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• There was a point when there were some (German soldiers) on the road near us and we were told to fix bayonets.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
• That’s routine in a police state that holds all the guns, bayonets, money and food.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
• Other photos show parts of the park used for bayonet drills.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Drum and Bugle Corps leads off, the battalion marches on, the bugle calls, the bayonets are fixed.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
• Some were thrown into the fire, while others were stabbed with bayonets.
  — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• But the cult leader had ample help putting a bayonet — his weapon of choice — through the heart of a much more innocent time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
• Moreover, the tips of the bayonets were not sharpened but blunt, cast to tear at an opponent’s flesh like a shark’s tooth. . . .
  — Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• No dictator wants to end their rule with a bayonet up the backside.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022
• The way the bayonet is protective, not aggressive, and with the mud landscape in the background.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• The next day the convoy was stopped by a group of Japanese soldiers on the riverbank, five of whom boarded the Panay with bayonets fixed.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Instead focus on the fact that each and every one of these rifles had a bayonet affixed to one end.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• One old Pomo woman looked on in horror as two whites impaled a little girl on the bayonets of their guns and tossed the body in the water.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• Soldiers marched up the driveway with bayonets on their rifles, pounded on the door and took the family away to who knew where and for how long.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• With Ridley in charge, the bayonet is sheathed, the olive branch extended.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The guardsmen tried to disperse the crowd, lobbing tear gas and pursuing the students with drawn bayonets.
  — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
• In brutal, point-blank fighting with bayonets, lobbed grenades and bare fists, U.S. forces beat back the raid short of the artillery guns on Engineer Hill.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• Then a lanky, baby-faced private wanders up and pantomimes slashing the blade of his bayonet across his own neck.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
• The inverted rifle with bayonet signals a time for prayer, a break in the action to pay tribute to our comrade.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• The Kentucky guard attacks the basket with muscular impunity and with all of the grace and finesse of a bayonet charge.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2017
• 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.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• The bronze statue depicts a Polish soldier bound, gagged and impaled by a bayonet.
  — Fox News, 14 May 2018
• Clare fixed his bayonet to his rifle and began marching down the exposed hillside with the other men in his platoon.
  — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
• Watching his comrades fall, Jacob flees into the jungle and gets a bayonet in the stomach for his trouble.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 July 2019
• Anyone who plans to mount a bayonet charge with M-16s has no business commanding infantry in the modern era.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• Their predictions included a flag, a bayonet, a class ring or a diary.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024