How to Use samurai in a Sentence

samurai

noun
  • The cuts matched a samurai sword that was also found in the room.
    — Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Evolved space birds going full samurai mode.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • One of his suits, which isn't for sale, features samurai blades and spike horns.
    — Noura Abou Zeinab, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Michael Kaplan was that those guys have to be more like samurai.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The new fences include a life-size samurai and jumbo-size sushi.
    — Jake Seiner, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Melodic jazz plays as a samurai slices through the mecha’s armor.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Tamasaki was killed, samurai sword in hand, by machine gun fire.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
  • Netflix's samurai drama is a bloody good time.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The film is described as a corporate thriller with a samurai twist.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
  • This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In the case of Björk and Rosalía, sparks—and samurai swords—fly.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
  • No rice paper walls, Kabuki sound track, or samurai swords in frames.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • In 1878, the age of the samurai has ended.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Mills has had an image of a samurai tattooed on his chest for the past 15 years.
    — Kathleen Luppi, Daily Pilot, 25 May 2017
  • Spend a little time exploring here to get a sense of what life was like for the samurai of that time.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Forest Whitaker stars as a mafia hitman who lives by a samurai code.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Its mix of open-world gameplay and flexible combat made this samurai epic a joy to play.
    — Gieson Cacho, Star Tribune, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Keanu Reeves is getting into samurai mode.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • The first is Yasuke, a black samurai whom Oda takes under his wing.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Way of the Sword, a revival of the classic samurai series.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Yet, the movie also runs 2 hours, 20 minutes, which is a lot of dead samurai.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Legions of samurai once lived in the protection of the castle.
    — Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But there are also scenes inspired by events recorded about the African samurai’s life.
    — Kat Moon, Time, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Yasuke, the world's first African samurai, had to fight for his place in history.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Those Western films and the samurai films, that style of filmmaking.
    — Carson Burton, Variety, 15 July 2022
  • And joining the ranks of Lord Oda's army is one path to a samurai's wealth and status.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • Pages from a book about samurai are pasted on a wall in the samurai booth, where a red lamp glows dimly over the table.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But fame and power should only be pursued along a path aligned with virtue – a life in accord with the samurai’s core oath.
    — Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The maze begins and ends with graphic beheadings at the hands of sword-wielding samurais.
    — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The artist stands in for George Washington, his oarsmen a band of samurai.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017

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