as in blade
a hand weapon with a length of metal sharpened on one or both sides and usually tapered to a sharp point
once upon a time dueling with swords was the gentlemanly way to settle a point of honor
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Recent Examples of sword
Their long sword-like foliage thrives through the heat of summer and takes on gorgeous pink hues as winter weather sets in.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
This suggests that the man who wore it had fought many battles or, at the very least, carried the sword publicly as a display of his status or achievements, according to Popsci.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
The answer is an umbrella, the one accessory that is both sword and shield, depending on the weather.
—Air Mail, 9 May 2026
In Boston, on the same weekend, officers shot and killed a man in the Fenway neighborhood after police say the man attacked first responders with a sword.
—Louisa Moller, CBS News, 9 May 2026
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
This suggests that the man who wore it had fought many battles or, at the very least, carried the sword publicly as a display of his status or achievements, according to Popsci.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
The answer is an umbrella, the one accessory that is both sword and shield, depending on the weather.
—Air Mail, 9 May 2026
In Boston, on the same weekend, officers shot and killed a man in the Fenway neighborhood after police say the man attacked first responders with a sword.
—Louisa Moller, CBS News, 9 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for sword
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In March, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California completed tests on rotor designs that could be used to fly those drones, spinning the experimental helicopter blades fast enough for their tips to exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound).—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
17 May 2026
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Instead, Sydney Lohmann opted to go for goal instead of laying it off, reducing Shaw to toeing the blades of grass beneath her and pondering what might have been.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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Badly run local governments, keen to massage numbers as well as find avenues for the huge oversupply of concrete and steel, compounded the problem.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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There were several matches that featured fireworks, TV quality productions, multiple champions and even a steel cage match to cap the night.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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“Sword.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sword. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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