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bayonet

[bay-uh-nit, -net, bay-uh-net] / ˈbeɪ ə nɪt, -ˌnɛt, ˌbeɪ əˈnɛt /
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stab
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Miller “soon put the enemy to flight at the point of a bayonet, capturing their colors and most of their arms,” Mr. Hemming writes, quoting Cochrane’s 1859 autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

An influential civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

The officers pulled him over on the 500 block of South Capitol Street SW and saw a bayonet and machete inside his truck.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

I got up and took Father’s bayonet down from the wall over the mantlepiece.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

“My father thinks that the reason he didn’t speak about it was the fact that he was bayoneted and gassed and it left such a horrible impression upon him.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

One of his biggest regrets, besides being bayoneted, “was in the excitement I had run out of film in my camera,” Norlander said.

From Washington Times ● May 16, 2020

By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their 40-lb. combat packs, 240 rounds of ammunition, bayoneted rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Soochow gates stood wide open and the Chinese forces marched in and stacked their bayoneted rifles, whereupon fifteen Japanese followed.

From Time Magazine Archive

She planted herself squarely across my path, now regarding me with contracted lids and a hard glint, till I felt fairly bayoneted by those steel-gray eyes.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

They carry muskets, but they’re not shooting or bayoneting.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016

For the cynics on here this guy has just lost his wife, I think your bayoneting the wounded, what must it be for him to read rotten comments at this time in his life.

From BBC ● May 30, 2015

After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the Emperor of the East had all the gold, the Government Bank only protected itself from failure by bayoneting its creditors.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Through Red Square pranced hundreds of hardy steeds, their riders dressed like Cossacks and waving long, bayonetted rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

U. S. Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted.

From Time Magazine Archive

These soldiers all wore the same stern, tense expressions and handled their bayonetted rifles nervously, as if they were in the camp of the enemy.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

I believe under Providence, that the ludicrousness of this attack saved us from being bayonetted on the spot.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various

A marine stood at the plank, bayonetted musket on shoulder, and close behind him an officer.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford




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