How to Use bayonet in a Sentence

bayonet

noun
  • But their long, lethal bayonets were fixed and ready for use.
    — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 19 May 2017
  • Some were thrown into the fire, while others were stabbed with bayonets.
    — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • Soldiers were known to use bayonets, rocks, and even gunfire to get their cans open.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Forty-five degree angle with your bayonet, go through the soil, find, find, find, dink dink.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • No dictator wants to end their rule with a bayonet up the backside.
    — Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • That’s routine in a police state that holds all the guns, bayonets, money and food.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
  • There was a point when there were some (German soldiers) on the road near us and we were told to fix bayonets.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Instead focus on the fact that each and every one of these rifles had a bayonet affixed to one end.
    — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Those who stopped walking or complained were stabbed with bayonets, shot or beheaded.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • But the cult leader had ample help putting a bayonet — his weapon of choice — through the heart of a much more innocent time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
  • Their predictions included a flag, a bayonet, a class ring or a diary.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • When does a soldier ever have to resort to a bayonet to attack their enemy?
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The lens ships with front and rear caps, a reversible hood with a push-button release for its bayonet lock, and a soft carrying pouch.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • With Ridley in charge, the bayonet is sheathed, the olive branch extended.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Widjaja said the two had confessed to planning to attack police with a bayonet.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The way the bayonet is protective, not aggressive, and with the mud landscape in the background.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
  • Underneath a chain fishnet top, Goebel has on a black bayonet bra and string bikini-style bottoms.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The inverted rifle with bayonet signals a time for prayer, a break in the action to pay tribute to our comrade.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Soldiers marched up the driveway with bayonets on their rifles, pounded on the door and took the family away to who knew where and for how long.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • The bronze statue depicts a Polish soldier bound, gagged and impaled by a bayonet.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2018
  • Aside from the bayonet mount, the E- and L- editions are doppelgängers.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Some vehicles, however, have a bayonet-type attachment that uses two screws to hold the wiper in place.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • For one moment, Tex Watson, armed with a gun and a bayonet, turned his back, and Sebring charged him.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • One old Pomo woman looked on in horror as two whites impaled a little girl on the bayonets of their guns and tossed the body in the water.
    — George Skelton, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • Guard members had tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas and had advanced toward the protesters with bayonets affixed to their rifles.
    — USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Watching his comrades fall, Jacob flees into the jungle and gets a bayonet in the stomach for his trouble.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 July 2019
  • They were then forced to walk at bayonet point some 65 miles to a woefully inadequate prisoner of war camp.
    — Alfred Miller, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2019
  • For me, that strife is sort of embodied by the bayonet that Owen’s grandfather purchases early on.
    — Keith Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The law prohibits the sale and distribution of screw-base and bayonet-base compact fluorescent lamps.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The Kentucky guard attacks the basket with muscular impunity and with all of the grace and finesse of a bayonet charge.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2017

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