How to Use saber in a Sentence

saber

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  • Grab a light saber and find a way to get the force back with you.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The second-year coach threw his hood on his head and took out a light saber.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 23 Nov. 2021
  • All of that has come back to me in recent months with Putin's saber-rattling.
    — Gary Fields, ajc, 31 Oct. 2022
  • But Putin’s saber-rattling at Ukraine, like the missiles, isn’t new.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • This is not the first time Putin has rattled the nuclear saber.
    — Nina Tannenwald, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The average turnaround times for a saber can be 26 to 32 weeks.
    — al, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Space Rangers have light saber-like weapons/tools that look like hacksaws gone rogue.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
  • Cut the parts to size with your saber-saw [jigsaw] and sand the cut all parts, including edges smooth.
    — David M. Swartwout, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Audubon Vermont compares its call to a Star Wars light saber.
    — Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Dire wolves, which died out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats at the end of the last ice age, were long thought to be close cousins of gray wolves.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
  • To rightfully claim them, Bo-Katan must win the saber in combat.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Luke comes screaming out of the shadows and just goes to town in a light saber battle against Vader.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe not, but a cadet did, indeed, once pull a saber on an SMU cheerleader, so there’s that.
    — Dallas News, 15 June 2022
  • And Bravenec offered no opinion as to whether the saber was ever at San Jacinto or the Alamo.
    — Chris Tomlinson, San Antonio Express-News, 20 May 2021
  • Even as both sides rattle the saber, neither appears willing to take things to the next level.
    — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
  • So, grab your light saber, buckle up, charge the hyperdrive and prepare for light speed.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 4 May 2022
  • And then the Kylo Ren crossguard stance, where the saber gets slow swings and big damage like a greatsword might in another game.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers had not yet gone extinct.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • But there were also megafauna that went extinct at the end of the ice age, like mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.
    — Denise Su, The Conversation, 27 June 2022
  • And through it all, for two decades, a so-ugly-he’s-cute saber-toothed squirrel has been trying to get his grubby mitts on an acorn.
    — Perseverance Apr. 14, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Scholz’s initial reaction to Putin’s saber-rattling was to play it down.
    — Noah Barkin, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Our hominid ancestors took about two days to hunt down a wooly mammoth or saber-toothed tiger.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The bowl, carpet and saber are in the possession of the National Archives, which received many of the gifts once Trump left office.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • On the other hand, Putin's nuclear saber-rattling is scary.
    — J. Peter Scoblic and David R. Mandel, CNN, 28 June 2022
  • The competing smiths try to craft Gaucho knives and progress to an ornate Argentine saber.
    — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • His final stop knocked our socks off — the bones and teeth of a saber-tooth dinosaur predator lay partially exposed.
    — Paul Sereno, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • If only there was a piece of antique furniture from a great-aunt, a Civil War saber from a distant cousin.
    — Lisa Swander, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In high school, Okoyomon had an emo phase and after striking a bully with a fencing saber, they were forced to transfer.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • This bobblehead has dual sabers and looks ready for battle.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Sabering is the art of using a saber, or some other nifty tool, to open a bottle of sparkling wine in the most flamboyant way possible.
    — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023

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