How to Use musketeer in a Sentence
musketeer
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Fitting right in with blind mice, musketeers, stooges, little pigs, & amigos.
—Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
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Still, only the best horsemen and sword fighters made the cut as a musketeer, and d'Artagnan was a legend.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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The other musketeers have less to do this time around, though each remains sworn to protecting the honor of others.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
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In Monaghan Rivas’ version, the musketeers are female rather than male.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
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The three musketeers captured imaginations and soon became myth.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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Charles Moore, who founded GM with Gearhart in 2014, is the third musketeer of the group.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 11 July 2025
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The musketeer names are code names so that these resistance operatives can keep their real identities secret.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
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Widowmaker gets an elegant musketeer outfit this time around.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
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Hany Mukhtar and Sam Surridge have a third musketeer in the attack after the smash free-agent signing of Espinoza.
—Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
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These three musketeers are perhaps the most endearing personalities among the doc's uniformly likable bunch.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2018
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In the 20th century dozens of movies chronicled their adventures, with each era casting its leading man as the noble, brave and loyal, leading musketeer.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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The Musketeers then partner with an aspiring musketeer to take down Cardinal Richelieu and expose his plans.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 18 Jan. 2026
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Cassel says taking on the musketeer role ticked his box of working on productions that break with norms, even if the film is an adaptation of the French classic by Alexandre Dumas.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
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The scheming and cruel femme fatale, Milady de Winter, is judged guilty of the most heinous murders by an ad hoc tribunal consisting of the musketeers and her late husband’s brother.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
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In that sense, D’Artagnan seems more than deserving to join their ranks, and the first movie includes the satisfaction of him being promoted to musketeer, while Milady remains at large.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
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The face of the musketeer to the left of the captain has deteriorated so much that canvas threads are visible; meanwhile, black dots and discolored paint have marred other parts of the composition, the museum reports.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
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The president and his political musketeers are slowly dismantling the opposition.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Brosnan’s take on Louis XIV is a velvet-clad, swashbuckling royal with a magnificent mane and plenty of eyeliner, a sort of modernist musketeer.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
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There’s also just one overwhelming evil force in this play — the Nazis — whereas Dumas had his musketeers fighting not just ruthless government officials but royalty, religious leaders and nobles.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
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While the hero existed — as did Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or at least musketeers with similar names — most of the actual stories are invented, either by the sensationalist biographer or Dumas himself.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
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Bordaz has long theorized that the musketeer's body was probably buried near the French camp, rather than being taken back to France, so that King Louis XIV could have personally attended his burial.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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Bordaz had long theorized that the body of the musketeer was probably buried near the French camp, rather than being taken back to France, so that King Louis XIV could personally attend the burial of his loyal servant.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
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When published in 1844, Dumas' novel, which evokes the adventures of musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan — yes, there were actually four musketeers — became an overnight sensation.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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The mother of three has brought her youngest to Les Invalides, the 17th century military hospital complex founded by Louis XIV, and today a museum which holds many collections of musketeer swords and armor.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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