How to Use scimitar in a Sentence

scimitar

noun

• At his feet is the lion, sleek, alert, tail curled like a scimitar, mouth opened wide in a growl.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• You probably won’t, but instead just grab the steak knife like a scimitar and get in there.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• The scimitar-horned oryx, for example, was declared extinct in the wild in 2000.
  — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• In the sculpture, he is shown holding the scimitar that killed him in one hand and a palm frond, symbolic of martyrdom, in the other.
  — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• The small plane is propelled by giant custom five-bladed scimitar props and has a 52-foot wing span.
  — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• And though wild goats may not sound like an exotic sighting, billies (the males) weigh up to 200 pounds and sport scimitar-like horns that can grow up to five feet long.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
• Okra is sliced laterally into curving scimitar-like pieces, their open sides seared on a grill to add even more depth and crunch to the stew.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2022
• To me, a teenager in a half-slouch behind the counter at the bookstore, each page was an astonishment: raunchy and vicious and wild, all of it in prose sharp as a scimitar.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• The ancient scimitar cats might have brought mammoth take-out back to their secluded underground den to dine in peace.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• As the engine gets older, the blades of the fan (scimitar shaped, hollow, and made of a titanium alloy) may become more brittle and begin to crack.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• Mariamman, on the other hand, carries a scimitar with which to smite and decapitate the demons of virulence and illness.
  — Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• Still another drawer held fragments of the scimitar-toothed cat.
  — Brendan Gibbons, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2017
• Toward the end of the seventeenth century, the blade curved into a scimitar shape, but this contour was to be modified over the next century to become less weaponlike.
  — Ernie Smith, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2017
• He was flanked by men posing as soldiers, clad in reproduction chain mail and brandishing scimitars.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• The gathering was presided over by promoter Carlton Haney, a native Tar Heel with bushy, scimitar sideburns.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• Homotherium was a lankier cat than Smilodon, with shorter scimitar teeth.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• Checking for antibodies can be like checking whether your friend is carrying a scimitar.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• Designed to look like the scimitar swords of Qatar’s national seal, this waterfront landmark will include Fairmont and Raffles luxury hotels taking up either side of the sphere.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Quentin, wearing only a loincloth, is strapped into a restraining wooden contraption while a Muslim, identified by his beard, hooked nose and the scimitar hanging at his side, hammers a giant spike into the saint’s shoulder.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Historical fencing makes a genuine attempt at historical accuracy, with all the clunky, cumbersome plates of metal or weighty weaves of chainmail designed to protect one from the strikes of a scimitar.
  — Mauricio Savarese, Fox News, 1 July 2018
• Paleontologists don’t just define sabertooths by their flat scimitar fangs, but by other adaptations like the ability to shear meat with their cheek teeth, a groove in the lower jaw for their canine teeth to fit, and other feeding adaptations.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• This particular protocol, which is routinely used in farmed cattle, was developed specifically for use with scimitar-horned oryx at SCBI in 2000.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
• For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals survived harsh climates with bitterly cold temperatures — not to mention predators including scimitar cats and cave lions — using simple tools and primitive clothing.
  — Theodora Sutcliffe, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2016

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024