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How to use the word Sword in a Sentence?

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I understand the emotion behind this bill, but you cannot legislate on emotion and this bill is a sword that will cut both ways, this bill has the potential to stifle, if not shut down, center right media and conservative talk radio.

Trey Radel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

See how the rapist whom you let free in society is slapping the system, great heroes once protected the weak with the sword, today this rapist is celebrating with the sword.

Swati Maliwal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cold weather is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it makes it very difficult, it is below freezing right now… On the other hand, it may reduce the demands for water. Perhaps that is playing into this, there is not a lot of data on how long people could survive in these situations but we are seeing those rescues 200 hours out.

Sanjay Gupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the skulls is deeply damaged by a sword or a bayonet, so it was a very brutal way of dying.

Courtesy Bernard Wilkin/AWAP Wilkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that the truth is a real double-edged sword. It’s painful to know, but it’s necessary, i think that those kids deserve to know what happened to their mother, no matter what, and her family and her friends.

Pamela Bardhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The excitement about these medications are, right now, a little bit of a double-edged sword that I’m glad that people are excited and feel like they have a treatment option for their obesity that would really be meaningful.

Kimberly Gudzune

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everything is a double-edged sword, the sharing economy has done so much for the world and for people. On the other hand, there is an underbelly of that. There's a dark side of that, like everything in life, right ?

Asher Weinberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your self-esteem is a double-edged sword. It all depends on the 'self' of self-esteem whether it'll pull you up from the nadir or push you down from the pinnacle.

Shayan Das

added by anonymous
1 year ago

She wasn't looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.

unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

It's a double-edged sword just because Sara Cromer never want to be in this place, but to hear that it's even being acknowledged is, in a sense, a relief.

Claudia Mendez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Must I at length the Sword of Justice Draw? Oh, curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

John Dryden

added by jessr.85566
2 years ago

They’ve got really good skill players on the outside, they know how to use those skill players, they put them in different positions, change things up. Brian Robinson, seems like he’s been there for 100 years and he is physical, runs with purpose, intent, a traditional Alabama back. They do a good job, especially against Cincinnati of committing to the run. It’s a double-edged sword. You do too much of this, they can hurt you.

Kirby Smart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While further work is needed to corroborate these findings, overall, it suggests that omicron’s mutations present the virus with a double-edged sword: it’s got better at evading the immune system, but it might have lost some of its ability to cause severe disease.

Ravi Gupta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Tyranny of greed bound by hatred; wields the sword of cultural divide.

Tia Attwood

added by Galactia7117
2 years ago

What the Respondents really seek is to hold a Sword of Damocles over Pastor Moore during this execution.

Seth Kretzer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it’s just a very live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword type of deal, and when you leave it to a jury, you don’t know what’s going to happen.

Patrick Cantlay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!

Friedrich Schiller

added by Normando
2 years ago

Someone who's playing a video game could win a flaming sword in their favorite game on Xbox, put it in their inventory, and later in VR, they can show it to their friend and their friend can hold it, it's the ability to transport [ information ] from one world to another, regardless of which platform it's in.

Jesse Alton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've never encountered a situation like this, i felt like there was a sword of Damocles over me for the year.

David Vigilante

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's a two-edge sword, antibodies are crucial to fend off infection, but some COVID-19 patients also develop antibodies that damage their own cells and tissues.

Aaron Ring

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, who wouldn’t? i think she had to maintain the stardom she achieved. It was a double-edged sword… [But] she could have been anything she wanted to be.

Des Barres

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not just about whether this insane bill becomes law, part of the point here are the threats themselves. The left wants a sword dangling over the justices when they weigh the facts in every case.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There could be danger if one of these highfliers disappoints, you live by the sword and die by the sword and will have to keep delivering when things to return to normal.

Don Townswick

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Testing is a double-edged sword, weve tested now 25 million people. Its probably 20 million people more than anybody else ... Heres the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people, youre going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down -- please.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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