How to Use samurai in a Sentence
samurai
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In the case of Björk and Rosalía, sparks—and samurai swords—fly.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
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She’s got a princess face, a killer body, samurai mind.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2022
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One of his suits, which isn't for sale, features samurai blades and spike horns.
—Noura Abou Zeinab, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
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The son of a samurai turned rice miller, Keisaburo Koda was born in Japan in 1882.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
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Michael Kaplan was that those guys have to be more like samurai.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
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The new fences include a life-size samurai and jumbo-size sushi.
—Jake Seiner, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
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The samurai Mizu stands backed up to the edge of a seaside cliff, flanked by four master swordsman known as the Four Fangs.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
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Spend a little time exploring here to get a sense of what life was like for the samurai of that time.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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Melodic jazz plays as a samurai slices through the mecha’s armor.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
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The Turtles use samurai swords and martial arts weapons.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
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Yasuke, the world's first African samurai, had to fight for his place in history.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2021
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But ‘aus’ the Germans were on Thursday, knocked out by the same samurai crew that took them down in their opener.
—John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
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The police are stumped: the room is sealed; a samurai sword stands upright in the snow outside; footprints lead in but not out.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
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This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
—Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
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Those Western films and the samurai films, that style of filmmaking.
—Carson Burton, Variety, 15 July 2022
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Among them was a piece of an 18th-century samurai sword.
—Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2018
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The game sees players take on the role of a samurai in the 13th century when the Mongols invaded Japan.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
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Pages from a book about samurai are pasted on a wall in the samurai booth, where a red lamp glows dimly over the table.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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Chris Heward: My character was killed with a samurai sword.
—CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
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But there are also scenes inspired by events recorded about the African samurai’s life.
—Kat Moon, Time, 30 Apr. 2021
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Author Kurusu Yoshio published the children’s book Kuro-suke about the samurai in 1968.
—Kat Moon, Time, 30 Apr. 2021
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Their samurai entourages could number in the thosands, the front of their heads shaven and carrying two swords on their left hip, one long, one short.
—Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
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The image shows the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan dressed in a samurai outfit.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
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Its mix of open-world gameplay and flexible combat made this samurai epic a joy to play.
—Gieson Cacho, Star Tribune, 6 Jan. 2021
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He is accused of attacking both men with a samurai sword.
—Kyle Hightower, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2021
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Michael Cera is the voice of Hank, a hound dog ready to train to be a samurai and save a town from a ruthless villain determined to destroy a village.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
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Little is known about Japan’s first foreign samurai, one of only nine.
—Leslie Nguyen-Okwu, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2021
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There’s a series of new islands to explore with a boat that can launch Klee firebombs, new minigames to play and a new samurai Oni-looking boss to fight.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 May 2021
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The death of a samurai in the woods leads to multiple contradictory accounts from those involved.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 31 May 2024
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The hamlets had sprung up to provide lodging and meals for weary samurai warriors, merchants, feudal lords and other travelers.
—Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
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