How to Use saber in a Sentence

saber

noun
  • As for what a fan might do with such a saber?
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 June 2026
  • Grab a light saber and find a way to get the force back with you.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The second-year coach threw his hood on his head and took out a light saber.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Look past the saber rattling and campaign rhetoric.
    — Brian Jones, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Space Rangers have light saber-like weapons/tools that look like hacksaws gone rogue.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
  • The first 1500 fans will get free light saber thunder sticks.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • All of that has come back to me in recent months with Putin's saber-rattling.
    — Gary Fields, ajc, 31 Oct. 2022
  • This is not the first time Putin has rattled the nuclear saber.
    — Nina Tannenwald, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2022
  • His office sports such mementoes as a real saber-tooth tiger skull.
    — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Our hominid ancestors took about two days to hunt down a wooly mammoth or saber-toothed tiger.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • So, grab your light saber, buckle up, charge the hyperdrive and prepare for light speed.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 4 May 2022
  • But Putin’s saber-rattling at Ukraine, like the missiles, isn’t new.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Audubon Vermont compares its call to a Star Wars light saber.
    — Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Even as both sides rattle the saber, neither appears willing to take things to the next level.
    — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
  • To rightfully claim them, Bo-Katan must win the saber in combat.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Sticks, staff, swords, sabers, whips or scepters including extendable items.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Luke comes screaming out of the shadows and just goes to town in a light saber battle against Vader.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The average turnaround times for a saber can be 26 to 32 weeks.
    — al, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Scholz’s initial reaction to Putin’s saber-rattling was to play it down.
    — Noah Barkin, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Allied leaders still see that as saber-rattling, a reflection not of strength but of weakness.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2022
  • His final stop knocked our socks off — the bones and teeth of a saber-tooth dinosaur predator lay partially exposed.
    — Paul Sereno, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Under Kennedy, policy making and saber rattling go hand in hand.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Vladimir Putin and his advisers keep rattling the nuclear saber.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Halverson happily used a saber to cut his birthday cake at last year's celebration.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe not, but a cadet did, indeed, once pull a saber on an SMU cheerleader, so there’s that.
    — Dallas News, 15 June 2022
  • Nuclear saber-rattling is an unattractive habit, and Putin and his aides resort to it often.
    — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
  • Cue the rattling of sabers and gnashing of teeth — until a deal is done that pleases (and displeases) both parties.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In high school, Okoyomon had an emo phase and after striking a bully with a fencing saber, they were forced to transfer.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • But then, after weeks of saber rattling, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
    — Bella Bromberg, ARTnews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Sabering is the art of using a saber, or some other nifty tool, to open a bottle of sparkling wine in the most flamboyant way possible.
    — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023

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