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Recent Examples of macheteIn three days time, Nashville Police launched investigations into two separate machete attacks.—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025 Police started searching the area near South Clay Street and North Drive and found a man carrying a machete and commanded him to drop it, the department said in a news release.—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025 While the winning tribe, Hina, gets flint, a pot, and a machete, the two losing tribes must now choose one representative to go fight for their supplies.—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025 When the man didn't put down the machete and let go of the child, an officer shot him.—Michelle Cruz, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for machete
Leipold said in his postgame press conference that a pocketknife had been thrown during the game and had hit a member of Kansas’ staff.
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Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
Investigators allegedly recovered evidence from Louisma's car, including a pocketknife with blood stains on it, machetes, a rope, a roll of duct tape, pink HeyDude shoes, and a cut up pink shirt with duct tape wrapped around it, CBS2 Iowa reports.
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.
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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.
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Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.
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