Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallsword
Noun
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What was once done by indirection and guile is now carried with the high hand, in the face of day, at the mouth of the cannon and by the edge of the sabre of the nation.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026 -
The first 1500 fans will get free light saber thunder sticks.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees.—
Ian Frazier,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2024
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In 2019, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas stabbed the balloon of sky-high expectations of his candidacy with a broadsword of a meltdown in Miami.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 Aug. 2023
Noun
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By holding a button, a simple katana suddenly becomes a 10-foot blade, or a rapier sprouts a demolition-grade power drill — all capable of viscerally dismembering and maiming foes.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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The fabric is produced on a double rapier loom in a width of 50 cm (19.7 in) at whatever length is needed.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The horse is red and in Toussaint’s hand, a sword transformed into a snake.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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Renato is introduced by way of sunlight gleaming off what looks like the blade of a sword but turns out to be the shaft of a golf club.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Enter, Katara Towers, a staggering 725-foot-high behemoth of two halves fashioned to look like the curved scimitar swords on the nation’s seal.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
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Instead, woolly mammoths and scimitar cats prowl the icy landscape.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
28 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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“Smallsword.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallsword. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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