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Recent Examples of bayonet
Noun
Our Most Popular Stories of 2021 This year, readers were into peanut butter and jelly, semi-conductors, bayonets, Victorian knitting manuals, plus the hard-working dogs of Medieval Europe. JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025 In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding the explosives was to prod the ground with a pointed stick or bayonet. IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted, or blasted with grenades. Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018 One elderly man was bayoneted to death; another man was thrown alive into a well and killed with a hand grenade. Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018 See All Example Sentences for bayonet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bayonet
Noun
  • After an intense, one-shot fight scene through Josie’s Bar, Matt and Bullseye make their way to the roof, while Matt is covered in daggers and using his super-senses to listen to Foggy’s fading heartbeat.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Such was evident following a dagger of a fast break Sunday.
    Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
    Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Once in Griswold, Correa and his sister chased the 21-year-old into the woods and attacked him with a machete, leaving him to die, according to court records.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Prosecutors said the machete was later tested and determined to contained traces of DNA from the victim in the first attack.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The triangular perforated wall with its clever use of perspective serves as a seamless connection between the store’s interior and exterior by integrating the outdoor landscape with the in-store display.
    WWD, WWD, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Madewell’s Epic Presidents Day Sale Has Tons of Comfy Travel Clothes Up to 84% Off — Shop the 33 Best Deals Vionic Women’s Kimmie Sneaker $130 $67 at Amazon Slip-ons — like these adorable perforated Kimmie sneakers — make getting through TSA checkpoints a breeze.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The prosecution’s most important piece of evidence is a DNA sample taken from a knife sheath left at the crime scene.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Police say Nodar then went to the bathroom and grabbed a folding knife before coming back and stabbing Matos in the head.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.
    Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 2 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Verb
  • Led by the enigmatic Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and accompanied by the shadowy operative Alejandro (Benicio del Toro), Kate is thrust into a brutal and morally murky world where the lines between justice and lawlessness blur.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The pair is eventually thrust into the crosshairs of the Marshalls' war on the creepers, a conflict that gives way to what is perhaps Bong's most hopeful film ending to date.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Bayonet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bayonet. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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