Sentence examples for sword from high-quality English sources.

• “It’s a beheading sword!”

• Then hence with your red sword of virtue.

• Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin.

• Arthur was only a boy, but he easily drew out the sword.

• Where did you buy the sword?

• Her arm appeared above the surface of a lake with the sword in hand.

• So Arthur thought he would try to pull the sword from the stone and he did.

• The Sword of Damocles is a mythological tale about a man who wants to be king.

Use sword in a sentence.

• “No offense, Pen,” said Sword, “but I’m obviously the mightier of the two of us.

• The sword is associated with “courage” in the poem’s first line, and angrily rejected in the last:

• Many European sword dances were taken over by trade guilds, trade implements often replacing swords.

• I have a beautiful sword in a room, and, if one takes a sword, and does this, it’s dangerous.

• Crossed-sword dances are performed over two swords or a sword and scabbard crossed on the ground.

• This happened various times until apparently the sword-billed hummingbird decided to his sword for attack and not for feeding.

• On the other hand, Fiona has just informed us that she will be bringing a sword home so she can continue her sword-fighting class (theater major).

• The introduction of repeating firearms virtually ended the value of the sword as a military weapon, though isolated instances of its use continued in 20th-century wars.

sword sentence examples

• Dagger, short stabbing knife, ostensibly the diminutive of the sword, though in ancient and medieval times the distinction between a long dagger and a short sword was often obscure.

• From the time of the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages, the practice of sword fighting continued unabated, although sword training became less uniform and began to reflect the ideas of the individual masters-at-arms.

• Hits on the opponent were made with the point of the sword only, defense was effected by the wielding of the blade (fending off the opponent’s blade with one’s own sword), and what is now recognized as modern fencing came into being.

• In 1237, less than two years before Hermann von Salza’s death, the Order of the Brothers of the Sword (Schwertbrüderorden), also known as the Knights of the Sword, or the Livonian Order (founded 1202), was made a branch of the Teutonic Order, its head becoming Landmeister of Livonia.