How to Use scythe in a Sentence

scythe

1 of 2 noun

• Matt with his stick; the reaper with his scythe.
  — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
• Rhys said to her, flashing a white grin like a scythe.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• Do not pick up the scythe even as Eris is yelling at you to do so.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• Anwar went home, found a sharp scythe and chopped off his right hand that same night.
  — Waqar Gillani and Rod Nordland, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
• Both were hacked in the head by ethnic Rakhine armed with machetes and scythes.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• One of his gnarly white hands, with fingernails painted black, gripped a scythe.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
• All three are holding Death’s scythe, but Death is the one who looks scared.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Once the two of us set about attacking weeds along the side of the house, each of us with a big scythe.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
• But that’s not to say that the bony guy with the scythe is coming for your TV.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• Not as some awful sort of ghastly skeleton with a scythe in its hand coming to chop us off.
  — Terry Gross, NPR, 15 Jan. 2026
• Or else the bud’s cut short when, as the Slovenes say, the lady with the scythe comes to visit.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Garrett showed up dressed up as the Grim Reaper, replete with a scythe and all.
  — Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
• It is bordered by a playground, tended by a man who cuts back the grass borders with a scythe.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• Kiffin, in many ways, swung the scythe that signaled the spring game’s apparent demise.
  — David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
• Some gardeners cut the cover crop short with a scythe or mower and leave the debris lay.
  — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2018
• In need of a substitute, Langlands pulls an old scythe out of the cupboard.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Saul passes through its streets in a black cowl and a mask, looking like a scythe-less Grim Reaper.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• His grandfather had cut hay by hand, using a scythe, and had driven a plow pulled by a team of horses.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• Simpson’s chest ink featured a skull and crossbones line, with the grim reaper scythe’s underneath.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• How the enemy could be the wind or a crowd, or how a farmer could be forced to cut wheat that isn’t wheat at all with his giant scythe.
  — Shannon Doyne, New York Times, 11 May 2020
• Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• Minutes after Claire Foy storms into the farm shed with a scythe, the movie takes a right turn.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, the Yari excels at taking down scythe-wielding foes.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
• The patch shows a large alligator skull with its jaws open wide next to a hooded skeleton holding a scythe.
  — Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
• At the bunker, Dean grabs Death's scythe, and he and Cas head to Death's library.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• In the opening pages of the novel, a new virus has leaped from dogs to human beings and is dragging its scythe around the globe.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• Thresher sharks use their scythe-like long tail fins to hunt, lashing out at schools of prey fish in fast, aggressive attacks.
  — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 23 June 2016
• In one of the commercials, Jim, his scythe and another guy are riding in the back of a cab.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
• Machetes, sickles, and scythes come in a variety of sizes to match your anger-management needs.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Gaiman's grim reaper eschewed a cloak and scythe for a black tank top and a spunky attitude — inspiring many young goths in the process.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022

scythe

2 of 2 verb

• If their press from the front fails, teams can scythe through them with few passes.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
• Maksimovic got the ball but scythed down Murphy in the process, and the referee showed a straight red card.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
• The virus is scything through its aged population and its hospitals are straining from a rush of patients.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• But its explosive power gives it the muscle of a gas-engine machine for mowing down the tall stuff and scything through weeds and saplings.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
• Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice.
  — Julie Cart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• The hydrofoils position the boat above the majority of waves, and the carbon stilts are slim enough to scythe through the water like tiny dolphins.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• One fun way to encourage kids to get out into the heart of a meadow area and witness its wildlife and plants up close is to mow or scythe a maze into it that kids can run or walk through.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 27 Mar. 2023
• Most people were short and slight due to childhood malnutrition, and diseases scythed regularly through their weak immune systems.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• Arguments about states’ rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• In the final minute of the contest, Houghton was scythed down by a brutal Takounda lunge, the striker catching her opponent with studs on the upper shin.
  — SI.com, 23 June 2019
• Ribery, who has spent a decade at Bayern, rolled back the years by scything through Leverkusen's defence and slamming home Bayern's superb second goal.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Prop Moody's marauding run set the tone before Barrett scythed his way through the Welsh defence to dot down under the posts on 13 minutes.
  — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• His departure relieves him from having to scythe his way to increasingly unrealistic targets.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 July 2017
• Their manual shifters scythe through the gates without resistance, and their dual-clutch automatics are lightning quick yet also flawlessly behaved around town.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
• Covid-19 continues to scythe through the halls of long-term care facilities despite an array of safety measures and bans on visitors, put in place months ago to slow the devastation.
  — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• Having been put through on goal in first-half stoppage time, Sane was scythed down by Cardiff midfielder Joe Bennett, who was fortunate to receive just a yellow card.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
• As the changing patterns scythe down yields and stall output, rising Indian domestic consumption is expected to shrink exports from the world's second largest tea producer.
  — Tora Agarwala, Reuters, 29 Aug. 2025
• The game began in untidy fashion, youngster Ampadu scything through Defoe a couple of minutes into the contest, earning himself an early yellow card.
  — SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Later in the half, Marco Bizot was sent off for scything down Jacob Murphy after charging out of his goal with Newcastle on a fast break.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
• Exactly three minutes and 10 seconds elapsed between Mbappe being scythed to the ground and the Frenchman being allowed to actually take the penalty kick.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 9 July 2026
• The impressive Johan Manzambi’s scything run set up Breel Embolo for a 10th-minute opener.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 7 July 2026
• Yet however valid Bourne’s reasons for scything Lippmann and the liberal intellectuals were, there was also something juvenile about his attack.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• After Manchester United scythed their staff, Liverpool are probably the Premier League’s biggest employer.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• That is before Salma Paralluelo scythed through the French side’s defence not once but twice between the 90th and 93rd minutes to double Barcelona’s advantage, despite the stadium announcer even kindly opting to reduce the total number of injury-time minutes from seven to five.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 23 May 2026