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33 examples of Bayonets in a sentence

They carried bayonets on their rifles.
And I will tell you that what happened is through that shattering, listening to the stories of eight-year-old girls who had their insides eviscerated, who had guns and bayonets and things shoved inside them so they had holes, literally, inside them where their pee and poop came out of them.
Other than that, the men couldn't kill their enemy except with either bayonets or grenades.
The dunderheads in helmets who rush by with fixed bayonets are unable to see legs showing behind false bushes, so that's all right, then.
Someone who was so fetching afraid of his ally (Bulgaria) that Secret Service agents ORDERED the soldiers from President's escort company to remove the bayonets from their riffles which of course were empty of bullets too.
Tunisia shows that no government that has lost its legitimacy and is supported only by bayonets is sustainable in the long term.
Syria’s AgonyMADRID – The English author and priest William Ralph Inge once said that “A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
Fire, bullets, and bayonets were now joined by nuclear radiation – a silent, invisible killer like gas and biological agents.
Yet, as Ronald Reagan put it in 1982, “regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”
The real question Americans face is whether the US can successfully address both aspects of its exceptionalism: democracy promotion without bayonets and support for international institutions.
This summer in Washington, DC, where federal law enforcement has jurisdiction, troops were issued bayonets and deployed to expel peaceful demonstrators from Lafayette Square.
Lukashenko understands that insofar as power in Belarus relies on force, it lies with whoever commands the most bayonets.
If a significant number of bayonets loyal to someone else were to show up, Lukashenko could be transformed into a Putin puppet and effectively removed from power.
The manager's villa, the Company's Yards, even the houses of certain residents, were bristling with bayonets.
And Maheu clenched his fists, irritated especially, as he said, by having bayonets in his back.
Behind them the captain had drawn his sword, and as the crowd pressed in on them more and more, threatening to crush them against the wall, he ordered them to present bayonets.
Levaque, at the risk of getting cut, had seized three bayonets in his hands, shaking and pulling them in the effort to snatch them away.
He pressed on the bayonets, compelling the soldiers to draw back, terrible in his insolence and bravado.
" And he threw himself between the bayonets and the miners.
The firemen at the foot of the platform rested on their bayonets; and Binet, motionless, stood with out-turned elbows, the point of his sabre in the air.
The National Guards, however, had gone up to the first floor of the town hall with buns spitted on their bayonets, and the drummer of the battalion carried a basket with bottles.
Before he attempted this hazardous movement, he threw his men into a compact square, with its outer edges bristling with bayonets.
Strong parties held the heights of Harlem, and the northern end of Manhattan Island was bristling with the bayonets of the English sentinels, yet the peddler glided among them unnoticed and uninjured.
They were well armed with muskets and bayonets, and provided with the usual implements of foot soldiers.
I have often charged upon the bayonets of infantry, over greater difficulties than this."
The sentinels dropped the points of their bayonets towards the judges, and Henry Wharton advanced, with a firm step, into the center of the apartment.
But the enemy knew their own strength too well, and, standing firm, they received the charge on the points of their bayonets.
There was a blowing of bugles, a pushing and a shoving, with the sergeants cursing and digging us with their halberts; and in less time than it takes me to write it, there was the brigade in three neat little squares, all bristling with bayonets and in echelon, as they call it, so that each could fire across the face of the other.
His cannon could do us no great hurt now, for we were on our faces, and in an instant we could turn into a huddle of bayonets if his horse came down again.
Two French bayonets had passed through his chest, and he had died in an instant, and without pain, if one could believe the smile upon his lips.