How to Use sword in a Sentence

sword

noun
  • In the corner next to the bed … a sword cemented in a stone.
    Edward M. Eveld, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In the case of Björk and Rosalía, sparks—and samurai swords—fly.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
  • There is also a hint of the Arthurian legend of the sword in the stone.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
  • While all the rest of this scenario occurred, the part about the sword didn’t.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Even the origin story of the sword in the stone gets questioned.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And the pen can be mightier than the sword in the right context.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The swift movement of the sword takes the top off the bottle to rousing applause.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • Over its life as a new state, Israel has built itself as a blend of the pen and the sword.
    Avner Cohen, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Your sword of certainty can cut through the fog of doubt.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Mitchell, according to the lawsuit, told the students the swords were props.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • His left hand still holds his sword, but the cross has fallen out of his right hand.
    Olena Stiazhkina, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Arthur pulls the sword from the stone about an hour and fourteen minutes into the movie.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2022
  • Tsai later upped the ante by bringing out a fourth sword.
    USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The golden wedding cake was so tall the pair needed to use a sword to cut it!
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
  • This will be on the test: Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin performed all of their own sword fights.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The smaller sword is a single fragment from near the end of the blade and has grooves running along it.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • To wake up Rakel, Nicklas stabs his mother with a sword.
    Lane Brown, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Yakuza weapons of choice are widely known to be knives, the odd samurai sword and pistols.
    Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Also a wide collection of axes, swords, and guns—the weapons used to fell the wild beasts, maybe?
    Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Plus, who can resist a Minecraft sword or a hot dog costume?
    WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Death — by gun, by sword, by pink animé plushy — is a given; the jokes, and the wasabi peas, are free.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • As the men wave their swords and begin their war chants for her, Ser Alfred slips through the crowd to escape.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
  • But what of the sword, which still hasn’t been removed from its covering?
    Michael Nordine, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In the heavy slot, zero grenade launchers or machine guns, and just one sword.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The museum is filled to the brim with bracelets, swords, and other valuables that have been retrieved from the bogs.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The sword separates the numbers 2 and 6, which were tattooed below and above it.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, Judith dines with him, gets him drunk, and then cuts off his head with his own sword.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The design of the sword was suggested by George IV and was made for his coronation in 1821.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The battlefield contained many kinds of weapons, including bronze knives, axes, spearheads, a sword and wooden clubs.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
  • When main characters have enough plot armor to survive massive falls, swords to the gut and the might of every Dark Wizard thrown at them, stakes become meaningless.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024

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