SWORD in a Sentence

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For SWORD, below is one of 241 sentences:
He entered, and saw the whipped Candide, sword in hand, a dead man upon the floor, Cunegonde aghast, and the old woman giving counsel.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWORD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sword
 n.  a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade with a hand guard
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He entered, and saw the whipped Candide, sword in hand, a dead man upon the floor, Cunegonde aghast, and the old woman giving counsel.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Azof was destroyed by fire, the inhabitants put to the sword, neither sex nor age was spared; until there remained only our little fort, and the enemy wanted to starve us out.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
3  Baring had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
4  Ney drew his sword and placed himself at their head.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
5  The sword of a cuirassier, which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to the song by killing the singer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
6  Ney borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and French.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
7  Shouts despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more generals, an inexpressible terror.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
8  Zieten putting France to the sword at its leisure.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
9  Duhesme, the general of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew the prisoner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
10  Then he seeks for the appropriate word as one seeks for a sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
11  Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
12  Waterloo, by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in another direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
13  If glory lies in the sword converted into a sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
14  She picked up some old rags and her little lead sword from a box behind her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
15  While Eponine and Azelma were bundling up the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword.
17  A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
18  The soldier impacted his sword into the ground.
19  The pen is mightier than the sword.
20  The sword bore through her breast.
21  Brydon knew that in time the blood would seep down onto his sword hilt and make the grip slippery.
22  The target for the matador is a small soft spot at the base of the bull's hump, where the sword can penetrate directly to the heart of the bull.
23  The drill master told the recruit to wipe the blood from his sword before slipping it back into the scabbard.
24  She slid the sheath from the short sword and swiped toward him.
25  The first good town we come to we'll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III.
26  I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, or the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
27  Brandishing their swords,they rode into battle.
28  In former times, people used to fight with swords.
29  Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
30  At the committee meeting, I crossed swords with Professor Smith over her department's overspending.