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

The soldier’s bayonet gleams in the moonlight and the extravagant feather emerging from his helmet rhymes and overlaps with the curve of a sail in the harbor.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

The bayonet had to go, perhaps, because there had been complaints that the statue “should carry a wreath instead of a rifle,” said a Seattle Times story in Oct.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

He shrugged it off, and used the Hessian’s razor-sharp bayonet to help him tear off the bottom of the coat.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis