Examples of kendo in a Sentence
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Bunny was introduced to a massive pop from the crowd, and pushed a shopping cart filled with traditional street fight weapons (garbage cans, chairs and kendo sticks) to the ring.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
Bunny hit the leg with a kendo stick and a steel chair.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
Damian Priest escaped, leaving Dominik to get lit up with a kendo stick.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 May 2023
Hikaru Shida hit the ring, kendo stick in hand, only to embrace with The Outcasts.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 3 May 2023
The three-time Grammy winner made his grand entrance wearing a brown cowboy hat, oversize orange button-down and light-wash jeans and wielding a kendo stick, just before Priest was about to finish off Rey Mysterio for throwing a steel chair at his face.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2023
See live entertainment such as dancing, storybox story-telling, a geisha opera singer, kendo and karate demonstrations, taiko drummers and a Japanese lion dance.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
Years ago, Eden organized gatherings in parks using bamboo swords from the martial art of kendo.
—oregonlive, 6 July 2021
Why my kendo experience will stick with me My sensei, a jovial middle-aged man who wore a puffer vest and Minion socks, became a gruff Kendo master once his white armor was laced up.
—Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2019
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
Bunny hit the leg with a kendo stick and a steel chair.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
Damian Priest escaped, leaving Dominik to get lit up with a kendo stick.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 May 2023
Hikaru Shida hit the ring, kendo stick in hand, only to embrace with The Outcasts.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 3 May 2023
The three-time Grammy winner made his grand entrance wearing a brown cowboy hat, oversize orange button-down and light-wash jeans and wielding a kendo stick, just before Priest was about to finish off Rey Mysterio for throwing a steel chair at his face.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2023
See live entertainment such as dancing, storybox story-telling, a geisha opera singer, kendo and karate demonstrations, taiko drummers and a Japanese lion dance.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
Years ago, Eden organized gatherings in parks using bamboo swords from the martial art of kendo.
—oregonlive, 6 July 2021
Why my kendo experience will stick with me My sensei, a jovial middle-aged man who wore a puffer vest and Minion socks, became a gruff Kendo master once his white armor was laced up.
—Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2019
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Word History
Etymology
Japanese kendō, from ken sword + dō art
First Known Use
1921, in the meaning defined above
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“Kendo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kendo. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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