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How to use bayonet in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Bayonet means a blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel. Example: ““Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.””

Examples of bayonet by meaning

nounA blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached...

  • “Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.”1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage...

More sentences with bayonet

  • I was given permission to fall out and join him, gladly setting aside my groundling's bayonet.2012, Pat Cunningham, The Fear in the Sky: Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two, →ISBN. From the entry groundling
  • Some people cannot stand knives, swords, bayonets, anything sharp; psychiatrists have a word for it: aichmophobia.1963, Robert Heinlein, Glory Road, Ch.1, at p.10. From the entry aichmophobia
  • The bayonet instructors would go absolutely fanti if they heard him, wouldn′t they?1961, John Harris, Covenant with Death, page 205. From the entry tray bon
  • At Sifengkow the "big blades" of the 29th army beat the Japanese in a bayonet battle.1958, Jacques Leclercq, “Evening Fires”, in George Lamb, transl., Thunder in the Distance: The Life of Père Lebbe, New York: Sheed & Ward…. From the entry Jehol
  • The governments of these marionette states were held by the bayonets of the Japanese Kwantung Army.1948, Thomas E. Ennis, edited by Walter Consuelo Langsam, Eastern Asia, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 434. From the entry Kweisui
  • The bayonet is practically neglected by the Bosche, except when our men compel him to use it.1918, Dixhuit, Safety in Trench Warfare for Yourself & Your Men. From the entry chuck up the sponge
  • Back in the Civil War, soldiers would have used single shot muzzle-loading long rifles with long-knifed bayonets attached to the barrels.2015, Frank Granada, Lorraine Grubbs, Beyond the Executive Comfort Zone: Outrageous Tactics to Ignite Individual Performance, Irving…. From the entry knifed
  • Gray was investigating boxes and boxes of fascinating weaponry—grapeshot, chainshot, minié balls, cannonballs, bayonets, landmines—when a voice intruded.2001, Stephen King, Dreamcatcher: A Novel, →ISBN, page 603. From the entry chainshot
  • Soon, however, the bayonets of the 72nd Highlanders and the kukris of the 2nd Gurkhas began to tell.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 356. From the entry kukri
  • It was hand-to-hand fighting —rifles, bombs, bayonets, butt ends —any old way of killing a man—"and we killed a lot.1917, “The Desperate Fighting of the Canadians at Lens”, in The New York Times Current History, page 45. From the entry give someone hell
  • The force of her horror must have been palpable in the air, because Jorge's eyes opened as she raised the bayonet up.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry palpable
  • Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry lever
  • The surviving defenders were easily finished off with a few riflebutts and bayonets, and Georg's men found themselves in sole possession of the airfield.2006, W. R. Hammons, Alternity, page 237. From the entry riflebutt
  • They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 44. From the entry lance-jack
  • But when they came to be drummed out of camp they had to walk turkey or get a bayonet run into them.1972, Detroit in Perspective - Volumes 1-2, page 39. From the entry walk turkey
  • It has been proved that when a German soldier sees his bayonet his fighting value is finished — he "chucks up the sponge."1916, Pamphlets on the European War - Volume 26, page 10. From the entry chuck up the sponge
  • They have, in the security of their sumptuous offices, behind stout mill gates and serried rows of bayonets and policemen's clubs, defied the State, city, and public.1912, Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence, Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence. From the entry serried

Meaning of bayonet

  1. noun A blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.
  2. noun A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
  3. verb To stab with a bayonet.

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Questions about bayonet in a sentence

How do you use bayonet in a sentence?
Bayonet is used as a noun and verb. For example: ““Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.””
What is a short sentence with bayonet?
“The bayonet instructors would go absolutely fanti if they heard him, wouldn′t they?”
What does bayonet mean?
Bayonet means a blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.

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