How to Use centurion in a Sentence

centurion

noun

• As the group snaked through the dark hallway of the church building, members encountered some artisans and a pair of centurions.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• With the guidance of an instructor, venture into an arena to safely train and fight other new centurions—and feel the thrill of handling your own wooden sword and shield.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• On Newcastle’s West Road, there are kebab houses and sari shops where there were once centurions and milehouses.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• Nevertheless, the England centurion was able to get a tune out of his side during their pre-season preparations.
  — SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Dipping into this power, corner to corner, hairpin to edge, felt like riding the lashing, leaded tip of a centurion’s whip.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• And the lashing of Jesus — not by a single centurion but by a large section of the ensemble, taking turns in a sequence choreographed by Camille A. Brown with fierce vigor — was shattering.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2018
• The phrase was evidently uttered by a defiant Roman centurion in the fourth century, during the sack of Rome.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2020
• And a surprising number of unlikely men and women have done that: Pontius Pilate’s wife and the centurion, according to legend; Saul of Tarsus; et al.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Bassianus was presented to the centurion Publius Valerius Comazon and his troops.
  — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
• Tremmel explained that the dagger was probably used by an infantryman or an officer known as a centurion.
  — Fox News, 1 Mar. 2020
• Though his origin story is murky, he is said to have been an Armenian martyred in fourth-century Turkey while serving as a Roman centurion.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• Some tombs at Hegra are the final resting places for high-ranking officers and their families, who, according to the writing on their tombs, took the adopted Roman military titles of prefect and centurion to the afterworld with them.
  — Lauren Keith, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
• The firm has also set up different companies that rent out other characters, including the Clown Collector and Roman Collection, where centurions show up.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 27 July 2017
• The mise-en-scene was explicitly modern: Roman centurions as immigration officers; Herod sleepless and fearful in a velvet bathrobe; a narrator in blazer and tennis shoes.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Confronted with parades of martial horsemen kitted out in battle armor, or murals of Hunnic steeds grinding centurions into a fine paste under their hooves, part of me instinctively recoils.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
• Their recent redesign incorporates some interesting elements from a Roman centurion.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024