How to Use swordsman in a Sentence

swordsman

noun

• That doesn’t stop him from being the best swordsman around.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 June 2022
• 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
• Mandy Patinkin, who played the vengeful swordsman in the original film, should be proud.
  — Natasha Reda, Glamour, 27 June 2020
• The moniker was borrowed from a cunning swordsman in a novel by Jin Yong.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• In the film, the drunken swordsman sacrifices himself for a friend.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
• In the 1800s, when China and Britain are on the brink of the Opium War, a swordsman’s daughter falsely accused of murder joins a band of pirates.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The gang is rounded out with Jigen, a gangster gunman, and Goemon, a slick swordsman.
  — Tres Dean, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• In Seven Samurai, each one of the swordsmen has a very distinctive body language.
  — Vulture, 21 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Instead, Indiana calmly draws a pistol and drops the flashy swordsman.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• And of course, Akira Kurosawa — Leone borrowed from him; the gunfighters in his westerns are Kurosawa’s swordsmen.
  — Vulture, 21 June 2023
• 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 masked swordsman and his wife fight a European count plotting to block California’s statehood.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The style and tone could dance between any number of ideas and influences, from introducing Jack to a lifelong friend in the form of a swordsman from future Scotland to a full-episode riff on Frank Miller’s 300.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 12 May 2017
• 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 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
• Giving Jack basically the same name, and making him something of a swordsman himself (who handily takes out a bunch of Tracksuit bros), was nerd-bait (or nerd-bait-and-switch).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021
• Chiba played Hattori Hanzo, a retired swordsman and owner of a sushi restaurant who crafts a blade for Uma Thurman’s main character.
  — NBC News, 19 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Around 2,000 guests witnessed a large courtyard procession of swordsmen, archers, drum and gong players and flag displays before curtains were thrown back on the takamikura and Naruhito began to speak.
  — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The Beth Israel swordsman has disappeared from view, but the alleged uterus-tagger—whose charges were dismissed—appears to be practicing in Laguna Beach.
  — Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Joining Lupin in this adventure besides the sharpshooter Jigen is their ally, the swordsman Goemon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• Lin plays Asia the Invincible, a master swordsman who transforms herself into a woman by magic.
  — Annalee Newitz, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2006

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024