machete
Example Sentences
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He then approached with a machete which he used to attack the injured man.
From BBC
During a single massacre in June, Islamist militants set fire to buildings where Nigerian Christians slept and attacked those escaping with machetes, murdering as many as 200.
On Saturday morning, men with machetes hacked through branches as thick as their arms, clearing patches of the road where traffic jams were at a standstill.
From BBC
The finished product, titled “Commietown,” used racially inflammatory images, including those of threatening Arab men, some toting guns, and a Black man chasing people on a subway platform with a machete.
In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
