How to Use samurai in a Sentence

samurai

noun

• The cuts matched a samurai sword that was also found in the room.
  — Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• In the case of Björk and Rosalía, sparks—and samurai swords—fly.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• She’s got a princess face, a killer body, samurai mind.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2022
• And joining the ranks of Lord Oda's army is one path to a samurai's wealth and status.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• One of his suits, which isn't for sale, features samurai blades and spike horns.
  — Noura Abou Zeinab, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
• The son of a samurai turned rice miller, Keisaburo Koda was born in Japan in 1882.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Michael Kaplan was that those guys have to be more like samurai.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
• Mills has had an image of a samurai tattooed on his chest for the past 15 years.
  — Kathleen Luppi, Daily Pilot, 25 May 2017
• The new fences include a life-size samurai and jumbo-size sushi.
  — Jake Seiner, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Yet, the movie also runs 2 hours, 20 minutes, which is a lot of dead samurai.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• The samurai Mizu stands backed up to the edge of a seaside cliff, flanked by four master swordsman known as the Four Fangs.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
• Spend a little time exploring here to get a sense of what life was like for the samurai of that time.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Melodic jazz plays as a samurai slices through the mecha’s armor.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
• The artist stands in for George Washington, his oarsmen a band of samurai.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
• The Turtles use samurai swords and martial arts weapons.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• Legions of samurai once lived in the protection of the castle.
  — Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• Yasuke, the world's first African samurai, had to fight for his place in history.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• But ‘aus’ the Germans were on Thursday, knocked out by the same samurai crew that took them down in their opener.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• The police are stumped: the room is sealed; a samurai sword stands upright in the snow outside; footprints lead in but not out.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
• Those Western films and the samurai films, that style of filmmaking.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 15 July 2022
• Among them was a piece of an 18th-century samurai sword.
  — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2018
• The game sees players take on the role of a samurai in the 13th century when the Mongols invaded Japan.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
• Pages from a book about samurai are pasted on a wall in the samurai booth, where a red lamp glows dimly over the table.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Theft, Ashland Drive: Three samurai swords were stolen between 2-4 p.m. May 17 from a house.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
• Chris Heward: My character was killed with a samurai sword.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
• Like the stinkbug, the samurai wasp arrived in the United States by accident, and a small number have lived here since at least 2014.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
• This video shows a battle between samurai with jet packs.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
• Ubisoft has one last card to play in 2024, the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows where players will fight as a samurai and a ninja in feudal Japan.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Including the latter character led to some backlash from Japanese players over the historical accuracy, as Yasuke's position as a samurai has been a source of debate.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024