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Example sentences for "short sword"

  • Each had a brownish tunic reaching to his knees, bare legs, an apron with blue and red stripes, a short sword at his side, and a strong stick in his hand.

  • Then a number of naked men ran around with darts, and one with a short sword.

  • Around his neck was a triple gold chain, and under his left arm a short sword in a costly scabbard.

  • When it had grown dark on the streets after sunset, the viceroy girded a short sword to his side, put on a mantle with a hood, and unobserved by any servant, slipped away to the house of Hiram.

  • Then he prepared to go; he had few clothes on and only a short sword; no other arms.

  • He had a helmet on his head, a short sword by his side, and a great spear in his hand without barbs and inlaid with silver at the socket.

  • One thing there was upon which more than anything else Grettir cast his eyes, a short sword, which he declared to be finer than any weapon which he had ever seen.

  • He was wearing a short sword, and was just about to draw it when Thorgils came up and told them to behave themselves and not to fight with Grettir.

  • Sometimes, but not always, they carried, besides the pike, a short sword.

  • Commonly they have a short sword at their right side.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short sword" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each stage; quite simple; short account; short and; short circuit; short circuited; short circuits; short life; short pause; short prayer; short range; short rest; short silence; short sketch; short space; short speech; short stalk; short stories; short tail; short time; short tunic; short vowel; short walk; shortened sail; small dish; will throw