Sentence examples for an edged weapon from inspiring English sources

Twenty-one feet is the distance at which you can be killed by a person with an edged weapon or club if the force you use to deter him is not immediately effective, which means right-now lethal.

Professor Guy Rutty, from the University of Leicester, said: "The most likely injuries to have caused the king's death are the two to the inferior aspect of the skull – a large sharp force trauma possibly from a sword or staff weapon, such as a halberd or bill, and a penetrating injury from the tip of an edged weapon.

"Wounds to the skull suggest he was not wearing a helmet, and the absence of defensive wounds on his arms and hands indicate he was still armoured at the time of his death". Guy Rutty, from the East Midlands pathology unit, said the two fatal injuries to the skull were likely to have been caused by a sword, a staff weapon such as halberd or bill, or the tip of an edged weapon.

The bat'leth (Klingon: betleH, pronunciation: [ˈbɛtʰlɛx]) is an edged weapon with a curved blade, four points and handholds on the back.

Maynard initially had his hand behind his back and when he showed his hand, he was holding an "edged weapon" in his hand, the chief said.

Faqiri was arrested in Ajax in 2016 after allegedly stabbing a neighbour with an "edged" weapon during a schizophrenic episode, and subsequently held in segregation for several days while his mental health continued to deteriorate, says his family.

Ch Insp Dailton, of Thames Valley Police, said the threat had "definitely morphed into that low-sophistication, low-complexity, vehicle-as-a-weapon attack, edged weapon, explosive device, firearm or combination of those".

The Yarborough knife, a distinctive edged weapon named in his honour, was first presented to graduates of the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification Course in 2002.

Emerson has appeared on the cable television show Auction Hunters as an expert in edged weapons including an Exposition knife and a Samurai sword.

MS-13 is known for its gory violence and a preference for edged weapons.

The introduction of the military revolution into armies of the British Isles by officers and soldiers who had served in mainland European armies during the religious and dynastic wars of the seventeenth century was retarded by a martial culture shaped by a chivalric revival characterized by an aristocratic preference for edged weapons over gunpowder weapons and tactics.