How to Use centurion in a Sentence

centurion

noun
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  • As the group snaked through the dark hallway of the church building, members encountered some artisans and a pair of centurions.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • With the guidance of an instructor, venture into an arena to safely train and fight other new centurions—and feel the thrill of handling your own wooden sword and shield.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • On Newcastle’s West Road, there are kebab houses and sari shops where there were once centurions and milehouses.
    — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Nevertheless, the England centurion was able to get a tune out of his side during their pre-season preparations.
    — SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Dipping into this power, corner to corner, hairpin to edge, felt like riding the lashing, leaded tip of a centurion’s whip.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
  • And the lashing of Jesus — not by a single centurion but by a large section of the ensemble, taking turns in a sequence choreographed by Camille A. Brown with fierce vigor — was shattering.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The phrase was evidently uttered by a defiant Roman centurion in the fourth century, during the sack of Rome.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2020
  • And a surprising number of unlikely men and women have done that: Pontius Pilate’s wife and the centurion, according to legend; Saul of Tarsus; et al.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Bassianus was presented to the centurion Publius Valerius Comazon and his troops.
    — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Tremmel explained that the dagger was probably used by an infantryman or an officer known as a centurion.
    — Fox News, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Though his origin story is murky, he is said to have been an Armenian martyred in fourth-century Turkey while serving as a Roman centurion.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Some tombs at Hegra are the final resting places for high-ranking officers and their families, who, according to the writing on their tombs, took the adopted Roman military titles of prefect and centurion to the afterworld with them.
    — Lauren Keith, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The firm has also set up different companies that rent out other characters, including the Clown Collector and Roman Collection, where centurions show up.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 27 July 2017
  • The mise-en-scene was explicitly modern: Roman centurions as immigration officers; Herod sleepless and fearful in a velvet bathrobe; a narrator in blazer and tennis shoes.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Confronted with parades of martial horsemen kitted out in battle armor, or murals of Hunnic steeds grinding centurions into a fine paste under their hooves, part of me instinctively recoils.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019

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