How to Use bayonet in a Sentence

bayonet

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  • No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The three main types are side post, J-hook, and bayonet.
    — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But their long, lethal bayonets were fixed and ready for use.
    — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 19 May 2017
  • And then the soldiers / drove bayonets through both her eyes . . .
    — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Her choice of shoes, Louboutins in the same hue of green as her outfit, sported heels as pointy and spiked as a bayonet.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • There was a point when there were some (German soldiers) on the road near us and we were told to fix bayonets.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
  • That’s routine in a police state that holds all the guns, bayonets, money and food.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Other photos show parts of the park used for bayonet drills.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Drum and Bugle Corps leads off, the battalion marches on, the bugle calls, the bayonets are fixed.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • Some were thrown into the fire, while others were stabbed with bayonets.
    — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • But the cult leader had ample help putting a bayonet — his weapon of choice — through the heart of a much more innocent time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
  • Moreover, the tips of the bayonets were not sharpened but blunt, cast to tear at an opponent’s flesh like a shark’s tooth. . . .
    — Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • No dictator wants to end their rule with a bayonet up the backside.
    — Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • The way the bayonet is protective, not aggressive, and with the mud landscape in the background.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
  • The next day the convoy was stopped by a group of Japanese soldiers on the riverbank, five of whom boarded the Panay with bayonets fixed.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • Instead focus on the fact that each and every one of these rifles had a bayonet affixed to one end.
    — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • One old Pomo woman looked on in horror as two whites impaled a little girl on the bayonets of their guns and tossed the body in the water.
    — George Skelton, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • Soldiers marched up the driveway with bayonets on their rifles, pounded on the door and took the family away to who knew where and for how long.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • With Ridley in charge, the bayonet is sheathed, the olive branch extended.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The guardsmen tried to disperse the crowd, lobbing tear gas and pursuing the students with drawn bayonets.
    — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
  • In brutal, point-blank fighting with bayonets, lobbed grenades and bare fists, U.S. forces beat back the raid short of the artillery guns on Engineer Hill.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
  • Then a lanky, baby-faced private wanders up and pantomimes slashing the blade of his bayonet across his own neck.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • The inverted rifle with bayonet signals a time for prayer, a break in the action to pay tribute to our comrade.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The Kentucky guard attacks the basket with muscular impunity and with all of the grace and finesse of a bayonet charge.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2017
  • The soldier’s bayonet gleams in the moonlight and the extravagant feather emerging from his helmet rhymes and overlaps with the curve of a sail in the harbor.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The bronze statue depicts a Polish soldier bound, gagged and impaled by a bayonet.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2018
  • Clare fixed his bayonet to his rifle and began marching down the exposed hillside with the other men in his platoon.
    — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
  • Watching his comrades fall, Jacob flees into the jungle and gets a bayonet in the stomach for his trouble.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 July 2019
  • Anyone who plans to mount a bayonet charge with M-16s has no business commanding infantry in the modern era.
    — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Students were arrested, and Canfora says the Guard used bayonets to drive students back to their dorms.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 May 2020

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