sabre

Example Sentences

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In a version of Sabrage - the act of opening a bottle of champagne with a sabre sword - Gower used an axe and nicked Border's face with a piece of flying glass.

From BBC

In Asia, markets that were open in holiday-thinned trading nudged higher, shaking off, for now, a round of sabre rattling across the Taiwan Strait.

From Reuters

The 51-year-old won an Olympic fencing team gold in 1992, was junior sabre champion in the old Soviet Union four years before that, and coached Ukraine's winning team at the 2008 Games.

From Reuters

Serbia, which has been armed through Russian donations and military purchases, has been sabre rattling and threatening force against its former province for a long time.

From Washington Times

The prosecutor had previously said that the suspect had been freed from detention recently while awaiting trial for a sabre attack on a migrant camp in Paris a year ago.

From Reuters