How to Use scabbard in a Sentence

scabbard

noun
  • One person made the hilt, one the scabbard, one the handle, and so forth.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The young man carefully drew the katana back into the scabbard.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The swords may never have been pulled out of their leather scabbards since being unearthed.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 May 2018
  • Parts of the weapon’s leather-and-wood scabbard – and its beaver fur lining – have also survived.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The second sword found in the next room was intact, though missing its handle and scabbard.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
  • From one man, 23, the officer removed a large knife in a scabbard.
    — cleveland, 10 Apr. 2020
  • An unknown person or persons sawed off a scabbard and drilled a hole into the leg of one of the horses.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The sword pyramids likely attached a leather strap that secured a sword in a scabbard to a belt and kept the sword in its sheath.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • The sword’s scabbard was also decorated with the image of an oval shield.
    — NBC News, 12 May 2021
  • Finally, add finishing touches, like an eye patch and a fake scabbard.
    — Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The team also found the remains of a scabbard fused to the blade through mineralization.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The sword lay in a scabbard of wood and leather, decorated with elaborate bronze fittings.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The Model 1 comes with a scabbard that’s molded to fit perfectly.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • Remarkably, researchers also recovered parts of the sword’s scabbard—a sheath of wood and leather lined in beaver fur.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • One of the sharpest blades in George Lucas’ scabbard was his effects department.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 27 July 2022
  • The scabbard is made of leather, gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, turquoise, and lined in silk velvet.
    — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
  • After he’s decapitated by a scabbard, his head thuds in slow motion down a staircase.
    — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Take out your triangular hat, eye patch, brass earrings, toy parrot on your shoulder, sword and scabbard, hook for a hand, and peg for a leg.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Right-handed fighters kept their scabbard, or sheath, hanging on the left side to facilitate reaching across and pulling out their blade.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Shings make shiny metallic sounds—a sword being drawn from its scabbard—and wronkers give the impression of metal sliding across a hard surface.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Marvel Studios keeps trying to unsheathe Blade, but the vampire thriller is stuck in its scabbard.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
  • Titusville officers went into the apartment and found Glynn on his couch sitting next to his sword and wooden scabbard.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 9 June 2021
  • Take out yer triangular hat (a tricorn), eye patch, brass earrings, shoulder parrot, sword and scabbard, hook for a hand, and peg for a leg.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The scientists theorize that the warrior buried with a sword on the left side of his grave would have worn the scabbard on his right side and therefore held it with his left hand.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Billion slid a knife from the scabbard and demonstrated how to sharpen it using a counterweight sharpener.
    — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
  • These included a complete horse harness, buckles, rings, ornaments, a sword still in its scabbard and axle caps from a chariot.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • This is probably because manufacturers, in order to keep prices down, cut corners on their scabbards.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 11 May 2020
  • Toranaga has already sheathed his sword, however, and uses his scabbard to knock the dying assassin back into a zen rock garden.
    — Jesse Raub, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Further analysis shows that the belt was decorated with images of a lion and a cherub; the sword’s scabbard, meanwhile, bore the likeness of an oval shield.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • Described as a surprising and rare find, the scabbard reversed a phrase commonly used in archaeology.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026

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