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How to use scythe in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Scythe means an instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. Example: “Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.”

Examples of scythe by meaning

verbTo attack or injure as if cutting.

  • The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.2011, Catherine Sampson, The Pool of Unease
  • The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 20:09 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov...

More sentences with scythe

  • Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.From the entry filth
  • The resulting scythe is heavier and more difficult to use than a bent snathe.2022, Michael Brown, Guide to Medieval Gardens: Gardens in the Age of Chivalry. From the entry snathe
  • A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings. From the entry wanderstar
  • They were wielding the tools of their livelihood, but as weapons – scythes, hoes, loys, billhooks.2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 28. From the entry loy
  • Some gaum of a farm boy had abandoned this scythe while cutting bundles of sourgrass for cattle-breeding.1947, James Reynolds, A world of horses: A conversation piece, page 229. From the entry gaum
  • Sometimes the creature is believed to be killed by the last stroke of the sickle or scythe.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 271. From the entry unthreshed
  • A murder of ravens scythed through the air , black arrows on a western trajectory toward the Flathead River .2010, Cristina Eisenberg, The Wolf's Tooth, Island Press. From the entry murder
  • A well-aimed strike from their sweeper scythes should be able to take out a dozen legs at once.2010 April 21, Cory Herndon, Guildpact: Ravnica Cycle, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN. From the entry catback
  • Time wi’ his scythe hed mawn t’crop on his heead, An’ then fafft it away wi’ his wing.1949, W.J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland, page 104. From the entry faff
  • Meanwhile Darius had loosed his scythed cars, to whirl destruction into the ranks of the Companions and the hypaspists.1900, John Bagnell Bury, A History of Greece: To the Death of Alexander the Great, Cambridge University Press, page 777. From the entry hypaspist
  • Outside their window Yousaf is shaving the leaves from the trees with a scythe, assisting the halfhearted Lahori fall to complete its task.1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 73. From the entry Lahori
  • Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat.1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story…. From the entry county seat
  • Old Percy, with fixed, mad blue eye and a rusty scythe, was attacking the "Japanese creeper" bambooey plant which had shot up green in the alley by the drive.1982 (published), Sylvia Plath, journal entry - May 15 1962. From the entry bambooey
  • He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.1913, Gilbert Parker, “‘The Alpine Fellow’”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book…. From the entry ambit

Meaning of scythe

  1. noun An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
  2. noun A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
  3. noun The tenth Lenormand card.

Full definition of scythe

Questions about scythe in a sentence

How do you use scythe in a sentence?
Scythe is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.”
What is a short sentence with scythe?
“Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.”
What does scythe mean?
Scythe means an instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scythe (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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