How to Use rapier in a Sentence

rapier

noun

• There certainly isn’t a rapier or a feathery hat in sight, though there are reams of verse.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
• Here and there, all the same, Barnes’s rapier wit flashes and glitters.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Hsieh delivered a rapier-like riposte to the question, followed by her trademark smile.
  — Christina MacFarlane and Ben Church, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
• No one bothered to do the math, however, because Bentsen destroyed Quayle’s point with a rapier thrust.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Every form of combat, including armored combat, cut and thrust, rapier and youth, has its own armor requirements.
  — Kelly Wilkinson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2022
• Apparently, this exactly the kind of of rapier wit that the president is looking for in his spokespeople.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 July 2017
• For those of us with less keen wit and rapier reactions, those servers provide a certain charm - a disarming frank enjoyment of their duties - along with a whole lot of meat.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The effect is devastating, a rapier to the president’s bludgeon.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
• The outdoor festival setting is ideal for this cheerful, rapier-twirling spectacle.
  — Chicago Reader, 2 Aug. 2017
• However, its fighting system is loose and free-flowing, especially when using the rapier.
  — Jonathan Peltz, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• Rudolph, with her rapier-sharp comic timing and cadences unlikely any of her contemporaries, is very difficult not to like at least somewhat, no matter your thoughts on the eating of the rich.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
• Hollander digs his teeth into every scene, from Capote spouting the rapier wit that the writer used to bring down more than a few, to cooking in his Manhattan apartment.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• The bird’s beak evolved to gather nectar from flowers with long tubular corollas, including a passionflower that is deeply reliant on the avian rapier for pollination.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
• Johnson's supporters believe that his blend of superstar charisma and rapier intellect can find a solution to this impasse by sheer force of personality.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 July 2019
• Zorro, who, through the lensing of Hollywood, used his rapier to fight for the defrauded, the working class, and the oppressed, may not be a bad model during a pandemic marked by gross inequities.
  — Rachel Lipstein, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2020
• Some of his favorites include a Spanish cup-hilt rapier, a defensive left-hand dagger from the 15th century, and a Napoleonic cavalry saber.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• Furthermore, recession buyers are checking window stickers first and worrying later about the weird taillights and the fact that a Tercel looks nothing at all like a roadgoing rapier.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
  — Douglass K. Daniel, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• Certainly the eye is ready as never before to accept Fluevogs’ generous foot beds, thick and springy soles, decadent heels and often whimsically rounded toes (though there are also dainty and rapier-like toes).
  — Linda Dyett, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• As the younger of two daughters to a divorced single mom, Bertinelli’s Barbara Cooper was the picture of precocity, displaying her rapier wit in zippy one-liners.
  — Mayukh Sen, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• By holding a button, a simple katana suddenly becomes a 10-foot blade, or a rapier sprouts a demolition-grade power drill — all capable of viscerally dismembering and maiming foes.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
• Officers discovered a Subaru Outback parked near the Capitol in July with a rifle, a handgun, multiple knives, axes, a halberd, a rapier sword and a bow and arrow.
  — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 6 Jan. 2021
• This is a persistent conceit in the literature of power, one that Larraín, wielding his camera like a rapier and Jonny Greenwood’s lacerating score like a stiletto, leaves in tatters.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Meantime the director goes at the social satire with a bludgeon, not a rapier, so that the insufferably progressive liberal smugness, embodied in the Seattle private school Bee attends, grows tiresome.
  — Michael Phillips, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2019
• Excavation of a site at Cape Creek on Hatteras Island began in 1995, netting a copper signet ring and a rusted rapier, among other tantalizing artifacts.
  — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 17 June 2018
• Like the introductory rivalry scene in which Cyrano’s rapier wit and rapier skills humiliate a celebrated theater ham just to win the flighty Roxanne’s attention, Wright aims to impress, but his flamboyance and foundering romanticism miss the mark.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
• The excavations, sponsored by the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have so far uncovered several artifacts that may have been made during Elizabethan times, including the handle of a rapier and bits of metal from clothing.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017