machete
Example Sentences
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In his field, just a stone's throw from his house, Kone still works only with a machete and wears open-toed shoes.
From Barron's
"It was more like Lord of the Flies or Borstal," she said, adding that every girl there had a machete, in order to cut the grass.
From BBC
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
In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.
From BBC
He asked: "Did AR have any remote reason - as far as you can really tell - or his family to be ordering machetes?"
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.