banzai

Example Sentences

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“We decided it must be a banzai attack,” Gibbs recalled.

From Washington Times

The daily “banzai runs” in Yuma, Ariz., that used to send hundreds of young men dashing across the scarcely marked border to overwhelm a few dozen U.S. agents were already a thing of the past.

From Washington Post

The island’s name became synonymous with the suicidal “banzai” charges that Japanese troops repeatedly threw against the Marines and Army soldiers fighting for the island.

From Washington Times

It would be July 9 before they were able to corner their enemy on the island’s northern end and, overcoming a desperate banzai charge, raise the Stars and Stripes.

From Seattle Times

Lower house members all stood up and chanted “banzai” three times in a dissolution ritual, then rushed out of the assembly hall.

From Washington Times