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
  • In the case of Björk and Rosalía, sparks—and samurai swords—fly.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
  • She’s got a princess face, a killer body, samurai mind.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 31 Oct. 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
  • One of his suits, which isn't for sale, features samurai blades and spike horns.
    Noura Abou Zeinab, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The son of a samurai turned rice miller, Keisaburo Koda was born in Japan in 1882.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • Michael Kaplan was that those guys have to be more like samurai.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Mills has had an image of a samurai tattooed on his chest for the past 15 years.
    Kathleen Luppi, Daily Pilot, 25 May 2017
  • The new fences include a life-size samurai and jumbo-size sushi.
    Jake Seiner, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Yet, the movie also runs 2 hours, 20 minutes, which is a lot of dead samurai.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Melodic jazz plays as a samurai slices through the mecha’s armor.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The artist stands in for George Washington, his oarsmen a band of samurai.
    Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The Turtles use samurai swords and martial arts weapons.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Legions of samurai once lived in the protection of the castle.
    Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Yasuke, the world's first African samurai, had to fight for his place in history.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • But ‘aus’ the Germans were on Thursday, knocked out by the same samurai crew that took them down in their opener.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The police are stumped: the room is sealed; a samurai sword stands upright in the snow outside; footprints lead in but not out.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Those Western films and the samurai films, that style of filmmaking.
    Carson Burton, Variety, 15 July 2022
  • Among them was a piece of an 18th-century samurai sword.
    Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2018
  • The game sees players take on the role of a samurai in the 13th century when the Mongols invaded Japan.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Theft, Ashland Drive: Three samurai swords were stolen between 2-4 p.m. May 17 from a house.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
  • Chris Heward: My character was killed with a samurai sword.
    CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Like the stinkbug, the samurai wasp arrived in the United States by accident, and a small number have lived here since at least 2014.
    Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
  • This video shows a battle between samurai with jet packs.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Walk back in time on the Nakasendo Trail, a 17th-century route that samurai once used to travel between Kyoto and present-day Tokyo.
    Christina Liao, Vogue, 2 July 2024
  • Ubisoft has one last card to play in 2024, the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows where players will fight as a samurai and a ninja in feudal Japan.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

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