Examples of bayonet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Randolph employs a unique bayonet temple that eliminates the traditional hooked earpiece. — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2020 Old Falls Revolutionary War Days is a two-day event with mock battles,18th-century civilian fashion shows, tomahawk and bayonet competitions and a parade each day. — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2022 For me, that strife is sort of embodied by the bayonet that Owen’s grandfather purchases early on. — Keith Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2022 An Off Duty article Saturday about espresso makers included a quote that inaccurately compared the use of the Flair Pro 2 to the firing and cleaning of a bayonet. — WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022 After parachuting in, they were met at the guardhouse by bayonet-wielding Japanese soldiers who attempted to take them prisoner. — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022 Officers saw the bayonet and machete inside the truck, according to police. — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021 Last month, Capitol Police arrested a man carrying a bayonet and machete in a truck bearing white supremacist symbols near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. — USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021 Man arrested carrying machete, bayonet in truck near DNC headquarters. — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating. — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020 And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted. — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018 An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted or blasted with grenades. — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 13 May 2018 An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted, or blasted with grenades. — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018 One elderly man was bayoneted to death; another man was thrown alive into a well and killed with a hand grenade. — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018 One elderly man was bayoneted to death; another man was thrown alive into a well and killed with a hand grenade. — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018 There are many battles in which surrendering soldiers are gunned down or bayoneted to death. — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 27 Sep. 2017 One of them, Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, who used his office to bayonet Mr. Obama’s clean-energy regulations, was just chosen by Mr. Trump to become the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2016 See More

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