How to Use musket in a Sentence

musket

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• Pikes and swords were less of a threat than musket fire.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2019
• And the dude is pretty skilled with a tomahawk and a musket.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 3 July 2021
• And there’s still a musket ball hole in the front door, plugged with a little wooden peg to keep the wind from blowing in.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
• The man who can right himself by a vote, will seldom resort to a musket.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• Slips of paper emerge from the pages like old musket balls or arrowheads plowed up from the depths of decades.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 26 May 2021
• In an engraving of the 1780s, the African king leans elegantly on a musket—the source of his army’s might.
  — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2020
• The Indian holds a bow and shield; the Puritan, a musket.
  — Anthony Kronman, Twin Cities, 26 Aug. 2019
• In 2019, the group discovered musket balls, leg bones and a six-pound cannonball at the site.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2022
• In the middle of the plain, the U.S. cannon got stuck and the rancheros came closer, but they were driven back by cannon and musket fire.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• But even with so many relics preserved, only 35 other musket balls have been found in the park.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• The musket was the principal weapon of armed conflict in the 18th century.
  — David French, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
• The braves demonstrated their prowess with the bow and arrow, the Pilgrims with their muskets.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• But a perfectly round musket ball was worth plucking from the muck.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Amid the chaos and musket smoke, half the Maryland regiment remained, about 400 men.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2017
• The best marksmen at the time could manage at most three or four rounds a minute from their muzzle-loading muskets.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• When the owner of the property turned them away, the leader of the group, Jeremiah Brandreth, grabbed his musket and shot one of the farmer’s servants.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 June 2017
• What's more random is Jamie melting down some of the gold bars and turning them into musket balls.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 1 July 2023
• The Sentry had lost his musket, and a shower curtain rod replaced it.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2021
• Monroe was nearly killed during the attack when he was struck in the shoulder by a musket ball.
  — Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Armed with machetes and pitchforks, these fighters seized a cache of muskets, then burned down a mansion.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• At Fort McHenry, officials have planned to fire a four-volley musket salute to mark each of the past four centuries.
  — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Carr had a display of muskets used during the Civil War, as well as other artifacts of the time.
  — Annie Gentile, courant.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Still others flee at parades, spooked by the aural nightmare of musket fire and sirens and marching bands.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
• The day begins at 9 a.m. and continues to 3 p.m. A 10 a.m. parade will be followed by a flag posting and musket salute.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 19 May 2017
• The Crown’s forces had approached on horseback and by sea, with muskets, swords, and malevolent intent.
  — David Kamp, Vanities, 22 Sep. 2017
• These firearms predate the flintstock pistols and muskets of the 17th century.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
• Daniel Boffey at The Guardian reports that on Monday alone, the team recovered 58 musket balls.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
• Bies and his team could identify the source of the deformed bullet as an Enfield rifle musket.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
• The smell of the campfire and the occasional sound of a musket firing might attract your attention.
  — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Finally, experts determined that the musket balls—which were discovered intact—had missed their marks.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024