claymore

Example Sentences

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Other soldiers set claymore mines on small stands.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2018

You get the drift that she's as vulnerable as a claymore, and sharp with it too.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2016

The figure reaches the bottom, enters a defensive stance, and whips out a lightsaber that looks like a medieval claymore: a two-handed longsword with a crossguard.

From The Verge • Nov. 28, 2014

Alex Salmond wields no claymore sword and appears only sparingly in a kilt, and yet he has brought Scotland closer to independence than any Scottish warrior since union with England more than 300 years ago.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2014

I looked at where I had put the claymore and saw a figure moving away from it.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers