Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: swords
IPA transcription: [s'ɔɹdz]
Usage examples
  • His curses are broken swords: he grasps a hilt without a blade.
  • I wanted to get out from that crunch of swords and petticoats and sit in a field.
  • It is only nature makes the blunder of giving the sharpest swords the weakest scabbards.
  • There were cabinets full of baubles and gems, and swords which must have been wielded by giant's hand.
  • She would have need of them, for she had to cross a high glass mountain, three cutting swords, and a great lake.
  • All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.
  • Guards with curved swords and many-thonged whips formed a double hedge between those in the procession and the bystanders.
  • The Iroquois rushed upon them, mangled their bodies with tomahawks and swords, stripped them, and then flung them into the torrent.
  • His hair was done in a curious fashion and his dress was of a wonderful brocade, while his hands clasped two fierce-looking swords.
  • After that they went round the castle, and at last they came to a great hall, where the Trolls' two great swords hung high up on the wall.