scythe
Example Sentences
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Now, no matter how fast we run, the grim reaper’s scythe is still inches from our heels.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025
OK, Verstappen did not scythe through the group involving Yuki Tsunoda’s RB, Esteban Ocon’s Alpine and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc as quickly as he might have been expected to do.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
“We foreshadow what the Wolf will reveal he is later in the story by having his sickle, or scythe, having that same kind of framing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023
Other business leaders have taken a scythe to their software sprawl.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022
But now that he was being mentored by a scythe, he began to feel he might have the mettle to be one.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
