How to Use scythe in a Sentence

scythe

1 of 2 noun

• There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe.
  — Carl Weiser, Cincinnati.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• Do not pick up the scythe even as Eris is yelling at you to do so.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• At the bunker, Dean grabs Death's scythe, and he and Cas head to Death's library.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Or else the bud’s cut short when, as the Slovenes say, the lady with the scythe comes to visit.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• All three are holding Death’s scythe, but Death is the one who looks scared.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• As seen the photo, the scythe’s handle slides down the back of her neck while the pointy blade wraps around her ear.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2023
• Both were hacked in the head by ethnic Rakhine armed with machetes and scythes.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• Garrett showed up dressed up as the Grim Reaper, replete with a scythe and all.
  — Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
• Anwar went home, found a sharp scythe and chopped off his right hand that same night.
  — Waqar Gillani and Rod Nordland, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
• Minutes after Claire Foy storms into the farm shed with a scythe, the movie takes a right turn.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Saul passes through its streets in a black cowl and a mask, looking like a scythe-less Grim Reaper.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• In one of the commercials, Jim, his scythe and another guy are riding in the back of a cab.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
• In need of a substitute, Langlands pulls an old scythe out of the cupboard.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
• When word of the rapes got out, young mother Mariche (Jessie Buckley) grabbed a scythe and attacked the culprits.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2022
• Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• Thus, ‶Mowing″ is prefaced with the explanation that Frost found the pen and the scythe his favorite tools.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• Death impaled by his own scythe – be not proud, indeed.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2011
• It’s an eerie-looking thing, a shrine to a dead traveler, with a scythe in one hand and an owl perched on the other.
  — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• In the opening pages of the novel, a new virus has leaped from dogs to human beings and is dragging its scythe around the globe.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• Instead of a gun, Fudd uses a scythe to try to catch his nemesis, Bugs Bunny.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 7 June 2020
• One of his gnarly white hands, with fingernails painted black, gripped a scythe.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
• How the enemy could be the wind or a crowd, or how a farmer could be forced to cut wheat that isn’t wheat at all with his giant scythe.
  — Shannon Doyne, New York Times, 11 May 2020
• Some gardeners cut the cover crop short with a scythe or mower and leave the debris lay.
  — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2018
• Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• In O Roncudo, a village in the shadow of a wind farm, farmers tend their fields with scythes.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• Gaiman's grim reaper eschewed a cloak and scythe for a black tank top and a spunky attitude — inspiring many young goths in the process.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• The only thing that could be simpler would be me out there swinging a scythe back and forth — or releasing a herd of sheep to crop at the blades of grass.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• His grandfather had cut hay by hand, using a scythe, and had driven a plow pulled by a team of horses.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• And all the while, a light show scythes through the nimbus of fragrant blue cigar smoke hanging above partygoers’ heads.
  — Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
• Simpson’s chest ink featured a skull and crossbones line, with the grim reaper scythe’s underneath.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019

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scythe

2 of 2 verb

• Maksimovic got the ball but scythed down Murphy in the process, and the referee showed a straight red card.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
• Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
  — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
  — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• Prop Moody's marauding run set the tone before Barrett scythed his way through the Welsh defence to dot down under the posts on 13 minutes.
  — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• But its explosive power gives it the muscle of a gas-engine machine for mowing down the tall stuff and scything through weeds and saplings.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
• In the final minute of the contest, Houghton was scythed down by a brutal Takounda lunge, the striker catching her opponent with studs on the upper shin.
  — SI.com, 23 June 2019
• The virus is scything through its aged population and its hospitals are straining from a rush of patients.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice.
  — Julie Cart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• Ribery, who has spent a decade at Bayern, rolled back the years by scything through Leverkusen's defence and slamming home Bayern's superb second goal.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Having been put through on goal in first-half stoppage time, Sane was scythed down by Cardiff midfielder Joe Bennett, who was fortunate to receive just a yellow card.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
• Swimming in the bay of St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the water like a velvet blanket scythed apart by my hands; seeking sea urchins, anticipating their sweet-briny softness, wearing my metal gloves, carrying my knife.
  — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
• The game began in untidy fashion, youngster Ampadu scything through Defoe a couple of minutes into the contest, earning himself an early yellow card.
  — SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Arguments about states’ rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• Yet however valid Bourne’s reasons for scything Lippmann and the liberal intellectuals were, there was also something juvenile about his attack.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• His departure relieves him from having to scythe his way to increasingly unrealistic targets.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 July 2017
• Maksimovic got the ball but scythed down Murphy in the process, and the referee showed a straight red card.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
• Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
  — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
  — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• Prop Moody's marauding run set the tone before Barrett scythed his way through the Welsh defence to dot down under the posts on 13 minutes.
  — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• But its explosive power gives it the muscle of a gas-engine machine for mowing down the tall stuff and scything through weeds and saplings.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
• In the final minute of the contest, Houghton was scythed down by a brutal Takounda lunge, the striker catching her opponent with studs on the upper shin.
  — SI.com, 23 June 2019
• The virus is scything through its aged population and its hospitals are straining from a rush of patients.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice.
  — Julie Cart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• Ribery, who has spent a decade at Bayern, rolled back the years by scything through Leverkusen's defence and slamming home Bayern's superb second goal.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Having been put through on goal in first-half stoppage time, Sane was scythed down by Cardiff midfielder Joe Bennett, who was fortunate to receive just a yellow card.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
• Swimming in the bay of St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the water like a velvet blanket scythed apart by my hands; seeking sea urchins, anticipating their sweet-briny softness, wearing my metal gloves, carrying my knife.
  — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
• The game began in untidy fashion, youngster Ampadu scything through Defoe a couple of minutes into the contest, earning himself an early yellow card.
  — SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Arguments about states’ rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• Yet however valid Bourne’s reasons for scything Lippmann and the liberal intellectuals were, there was also something juvenile about his attack.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• His departure relieves him from having to scythe his way to increasingly unrealistic targets.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024