How to Use swordsman in a Sentence

swordsman

noun
  • Mandy Patinkin, who played the vengeful swordsman in the original film, should be proud.
    — Natasha Reda, Glamour, 27 June 2020
  • In the film, the drunken swordsman sacrifices himself for a friend.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
  • The moniker was borrowed from a cunning swordsman in a novel by Jin Yong.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Cymbals will crash, trumpets will sound, and Harrison Ford will shoot the swordsman.
    — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, Indiana calmly draws a pistol and drops the flashy swordsman.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
  • In Seven Samurai, each one of the swordsmen has a very distinctive body language.
    — Vulture, 21 June 2023
  • The gang is rounded out with Jigen, a gangster gunman, and Goemon, a slick swordsman.
    — Tres Dean, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The samurai Mizu stands backed up to the edge of a seaside cliff, flanked by four master swordsman known as the Four Fangs.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Berserk is a dark and brooding tale of how an immense swordsman called Guts deals with the betrayal of his friend Griffith.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • So Smilodon used the sabres like an assassin’s dagger rather than a swordsman’s blade, dispatching victims with quick stabs.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2012
  • The Spanish swordsman joins the royal fencing academy and duels a duke who wants to be dictator.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
  • The rock star is a talented swordsman and used to train with the British Olympic fencing squad in the 1980s.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Jubei was also a fiercely good swordsman himself and spent 12 years wandering Japan with little known of his deeds.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • When the game begins, he’s just returned from training at an elite swordsman academy in Edo (modern-day Tokyo).
    — Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Bokuden was renowned for his skill as a swordsman but also for his ability to use his cleverness to circumvent violence.
    — Rachel Riederer, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Collectors that dress up like clowns or fictional swordsmen to confront and publicly shame people with unpaid bills are making a good living.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • Shockingly, this rival swordsman had a similar gauntlet to Musashi.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Refusing to kill an infant from an enemy clan, a master swordsman takes the child and flees to an American frontier town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The masked swordsman and his wife fight a European count plotting to block California’s statehood.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The anemo swordsman is being saved for the second banner, likely two weeks away, and Klee is returning for her first reprisal banner which will launch alongside this update.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • The public first got a whiff of the exploits of the seductive swordsman in 1897, in a play that bears his name and has been retold on stage and screen scores of time ever since.
    — Mike Hammer, SPIN, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Lin plays Asia the Invincible, a master swordsman who transforms herself into a woman by magic.
    — Annalee Newitz, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2006
  • All of them tell the action-fantasy story of an immortal Scottish swordsman's battles, taking place across storylines in the past and the present.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Born in 1607, this Jubei was the son of a famous swordsman who helped the Tokugawa family seize power over Japan.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • And of course, Akira Kurosawa — Leone borrowed from him; the gunfighters in his westerns are Kurosawa’s swordsmen.
    — Vulture, 21 June 2023
  • When a child is inadvertently killed by battling swordsmen, his mother – danced by Kathleen Dahlhoff – lifts her child into her arms and cuts loose with a silent and gut-wrenching scream.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Manji kills all of his opponents, losing his little sister, a hand, and one of his eyes in the process; now having lost his social position, his family, and lots of blood, the swordsman prepares to die.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Joining Lupin in this adventure besides the sharpshooter Jigen is their ally, the swordsman Goemon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
  • Alejandro is cousin both to the masterless swordsmen of Japanese cinema and to the lone gunslingers of the postwar Hollywood western.
    — Taylor Sheridan, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • Cecil The hero of Final Fantasy IV, Cecil is an expert swordsman.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026

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