bayonet

Example Sentences

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In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

Consequentially, a gap in a bone might be a wound from a musket ball or a bayonet - or it might not be.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2023

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

Officers reported they saw a bayonet and machete inside the truck.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2021

They haven’t seen the gold lace on the generals, those muskets—all so alike, and everyone has a bayonet.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes