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Recent Examples of bayonet
Noun
Apparently, Lord John’s distant cousin Charles Grey and his troops killed 100 men in their beds, using nothing but bayonets. Lincee Ray, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024 If these were not available a gun could be spiked with a bayonet which would then be broken off so it could not be pulled out. David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Verb
An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted, or blasted with grenades. Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018 One elderly man was bayoneted to death; another man was thrown alive into a well and killed with a hand grenade. Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018 See all Example Sentences for bayonet 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bayonet
Noun
  • The dagger appears to be 7.5 inches in length when uncovered from under the hairbrush.
    Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Barkley delivered the dagger on the Eagles’ next offensive possession.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the video, an officer handling a police dog can be heard telling Umana to drop the machete as Umana stood on the sidewalk.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Cops are looking for a man who chopped off most of the fingers on a man’s hand with a machete after a sidewalk dispute in the Bronx erupted over their dogs barking at each other, police said.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The front seats are immaculate with dozens of baseball-mitt-like brown leather panels perforated for heating and cooling.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • And then also reducing the amount of surface coverage on the band itself by also removing and perforating.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The department wrote that Ross turned toward an officer with the knife in hand.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The pardons for those who attacked the U.S. Capitol included those who didn’t commit violence as well as those who carried firearms, Tasers, and knives into the melee, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.
    Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 2 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Verb
  • As the only child of Whitney and Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina was thrust into the spotlight from a young age, experiencing a life full of both triumphs and struggles.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • He was thrust into the starting role in Week 6 of the 2024 season in a 41-21 loss to the Texans.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At the Williamsburg International Airport in Virginia, a pocketknife was found shoved inside someone’s shoe.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
  • After all, what says hardcore quite like amputating your own fingertip with a pocketknife?
    Sarah Goodman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Bayonet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bayonet. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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