How to Use scythe in a Sentence

scythe

1 of 2 noun
Definition of scythenext
  • There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe.
    — Carl Weiser, Cincinnati.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Do not pick up the scythe even as Eris is yelling at you to do so.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • At the bunker, Dean grabs Death's scythe, and he and Cas head to Death's library.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Or else the bud’s cut short when, as the Slovenes say, the lady with the scythe comes to visit.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • All three are holding Death’s scythe, but Death is the one who looks scared.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • As seen the photo, the scythe’s handle slides down the back of her neck while the pointy blade wraps around her ear.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Both were hacked in the head by ethnic Rakhine armed with machetes and scythes.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Garrett showed up dressed up as the Grim Reaper, replete with a scythe and all.
    — Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Anwar went home, found a sharp scythe and chopped off his right hand that same night.
    — Waqar Gillani and Rod Nordland, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
  • Minutes after Claire Foy storms into the farm shed with a scythe, the movie takes a right turn.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Saul passes through its streets in a black cowl and a mask, looking like a scythe-less Grim Reaper.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • In one of the commercials, Jim, his scythe and another guy are riding in the back of a cab.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
  • In need of a substitute, Langlands pulls an old scythe out of the cupboard.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • When word of the rapes got out, young mother Mariche (Jessie Buckley) grabbed a scythe and attacked the culprits.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Thus, ‶Mowing″ is prefaced with the explanation that Frost found the pen and the scythe his favorite tools.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Death impaled by his own scythe – be not proud, indeed.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2011
  • It’s an eerie-looking thing, a shrine to a dead traveler, with a scythe in one hand and an owl perched on the other.
    — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
  • In the opening pages of the novel, a new virus has leaped from dogs to human beings and is dragging its scythe around the globe.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • Instead of a gun, Fudd uses a scythe to try to catch his nemesis, Bugs Bunny.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 7 June 2020
  • One of his gnarly white hands, with fingernails painted black, gripped a scythe.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
  • How the enemy could be the wind or a crowd, or how a farmer could be forced to cut wheat that isn’t wheat at all with his giant scythe.
    — Shannon Doyne, New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • Some gardeners cut the cover crop short with a scythe or mower and leave the debris lay.
    — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In O Roncudo, a village in the shadow of a wind farm, farmers tend their fields with scythes.
    — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • Gaiman's grim reaper eschewed a cloak and scythe for a black tank top and a spunky attitude — inspiring many young goths in the process.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The only thing that could be simpler would be me out there swinging a scythe back and forth — or releasing a herd of sheep to crop at the blades of grass.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
  • His grandfather had cut hay by hand, using a scythe, and had driven a plow pulled by a team of horses.
    — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
  • And all the while, a light show scythes through the nimbus of fragrant blue cigar smoke hanging above partygoers’ heads.
    — Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Simpson’s chest ink featured a skull and crossbones line, with the grim reaper scythe’s underneath.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019
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scythe

2 of 2 verb
  • Maksimovic got the ball but scythed down Murphy in the process, and the referee showed a straight red card.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
    — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
    — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Prop Moody's marauding run set the tone before Barrett scythed his way through the Welsh defence to dot down under the posts on 13 minutes.
    — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But its explosive power gives it the muscle of a gas-engine machine for mowing down the tall stuff and scything through weeds and saplings.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In the final minute of the contest, Houghton was scythed down by a brutal Takounda lunge, the striker catching her opponent with studs on the upper shin.
    — SI.com, 23 June 2019
  • The virus is scything through its aged population and its hospitals are straining from a rush of patients.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice.
    — Julie Cart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Ribery, who has spent a decade at Bayern, rolled back the years by scything through Leverkusen's defence and slamming home Bayern's superb second goal.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Having been put through on goal in first-half stoppage time, Sane was scythed down by Cardiff midfielder Joe Bennett, who was fortunate to receive just a yellow card.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Swimming in the bay of St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the water like a velvet blanket scythed apart by my hands; seeking sea urchins, anticipating their sweet-briny softness, wearing my metal gloves, carrying my knife.
    — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The game began in untidy fashion, youngster Ampadu scything through Defoe a couple of minutes into the contest, earning himself an early yellow card.
    — SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Arguments about states’ rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Yet however valid Bourne’s reasons for scything Lippmann and the liberal intellectuals were, there was also something juvenile about his attack.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • His departure relieves him from having to scythe his way to increasingly unrealistic targets.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 July 2017
  • Maksimovic got the ball but scythed down Murphy in the process, and the referee showed a straight red card.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
    — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Then screams filled the theater—as moviegoers glimpsed faces and scalps scythed open by shrapnel.
    — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Prop Moody's marauding run set the tone before Barrett scythed his way through the Welsh defence to dot down under the posts on 13 minutes.
    — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But its explosive power gives it the muscle of a gas-engine machine for mowing down the tall stuff and scything through weeds and saplings.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In the final minute of the contest, Houghton was scythed down by a brutal Takounda lunge, the striker catching her opponent with studs on the upper shin.
    — SI.com, 23 June 2019
  • The virus is scything through its aged population and its hospitals are straining from a rush of patients.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice.
    — Julie Cart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Ribery, who has spent a decade at Bayern, rolled back the years by scything through Leverkusen's defence and slamming home Bayern's superb second goal.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Having been put through on goal in first-half stoppage time, Sane was scythed down by Cardiff midfielder Joe Bennett, who was fortunate to receive just a yellow card.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Swimming in the bay of St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the water like a velvet blanket scythed apart by my hands; seeking sea urchins, anticipating their sweet-briny softness, wearing my metal gloves, carrying my knife.
    — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The game began in untidy fashion, youngster Ampadu scything through Defoe a couple of minutes into the contest, earning himself an early yellow card.
    — SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Arguments about states’ rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Yet however valid Bourne’s reasons for scything Lippmann and the liberal intellectuals were, there was also something juvenile about his attack.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • His departure relieves him from having to scythe his way to increasingly unrealistic targets.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 July 2017

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