How to Use scimitar in a Sentence

scimitar

noun

• At his feet is the lion, sleek, alert, tail curled like a scimitar, mouth opened wide in a growl.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• Its head crest is shaped like a curved sword called a scimitar, and measures 20 inches long.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
• Still another drawer held fragments of the scimitar-toothed cat.
  — Brendan Gibbons, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2017
• Instead, woolly mammoths and scimitar cats prowl the icy landscape.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2025
• His sleepy eyes, scimitar nose, and pronounced chin made his face a caricaturist’s dream.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Okra is sliced laterally into curving scimitar-like pieces, their open sides seared on a grill to add even more depth and crunch to the stew.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2022
• The ancient scimitar cats might have brought mammoth take-out back to their secluded underground den to dine in peace.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• In the sculpture, he is shown holding the scimitar that killed him in one hand and a palm frond, symbolic of martyrdom, in the other.
  — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• He was flanked by men posing as soldiers, clad in reproduction chain mail and brandishing scimitars.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• Checking for antibodies can be like checking whether your friend is carrying a scimitar.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• Homotherium was a lankier cat than Smilodon, with shorter scimitar teeth.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• Mariamman, on the other hand, carries a scimitar with which to smite and decapitate the demons of virulence and illness.
  — Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• And though wild goats may not sound like an exotic sighting, billies (the males) weigh up to 200 pounds and sport scimitar-like horns that can grow up to five feet long.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
• As the engine gets older, the blades of the fan (scimitar shaped, hollow, and made of a titanium alloy) may become more brittle and begin to crack.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• Toward the end of the seventeenth century, the blade curved into a scimitar shape, but this contour was to be modified over the next century to become less weaponlike.
  — Ernie Smith, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2017
• Enter, Katara Towers, a staggering 725-foot-high behemoth of two halves fashioned to look like the curved scimitar swords on the nation’s seal.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
• The gathering was presided over by promoter Carlton Haney, a native Tar Heel with bushy, scimitar sideburns.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• Historical fencing makes a genuine attempt at historical accuracy, with all the clunky, cumbersome plates of metal or weighty weaves of chainmail designed to protect one from the strikes of a scimitar.
  — Mauricio Savarese, Fox News, 1 July 2018
• This hierarchy of killers and deceivers employs switcheroo treachery and brutality, implementing various blades, daggers, scimitars, and cleavers.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
• Paleontologists don’t just define sabertooths by their flat scimitar fangs, but by other adaptations like the ability to shear meat with their cheek teeth, a groove in the lower jaw for their canine teeth to fit, and other feeding adaptations.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• Designed to look like the scimitar swords of Qatar’s national seal, this waterfront landmark will include Fairmont and Raffles luxury hotels taking up either side of the sphere.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Quentin, wearing only a loincloth, is strapped into a restraining wooden contraption while a Muslim, identified by his beard, hooked nose and the scimitar hanging at his side, hammers a giant spike into the saint’s shoulder.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Riot gear meets scimitar in the streets of Verona, where the civil war between the Montagues and the Capulets has technically ended but hostilities persist in a musical no man’s land.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals survived harsh climates with bitterly cold temperatures — not to mention predators including scimitar cats and cave lions — using simple tools and primitive clothing.
  — Theodora Sutcliffe, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2016
• All the members of the oryx family-the fringe-ear of Kenya and Tanzania; the Beisa of Kenya north of the Tana River, Somaliland, and Ethiopia; the white or scimitar-horned oryx of the Sahara desert-are traditionally tough and hard to kill.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025