Sentence examples for sword from inspiring English sources

You add their pelts into the deal and buy the sword.

Manuel Pellegrini, the sword of Abu Dhamocles constantly hovering over his head, will be desperate to finish the season with a sixth victory in a row against a Saints team in a poor run of form (that astonishing first-half, five-goal outlier against Aston Villa apart).

After losing ground at the 2003 Scottish parliament election and in a European parliament contest the following year, Swinney fell on his sword.

You can see him falling on his metaphorical sword with defiant elan.

There were long periods of this display which were desperately unimpressive against a team put to the sword a fortnight ago and the memories with which the Premier League leaders left Slovenia were more of a rare Eden Hazard penalty miss, an undeniably sloppy performance and even a show of dissatisfaction by the travelling support which clearly went unappreciated by those in the visitors' dug-out.

Peter Mandelson and others have been pressing the prime minister to fall on his sword.

Yet Saudi women are still not allowed to drive, citizens are unable to vote except in municipal elections and public beheading by sword remains a standard feature of the judicial system.

Is Rey her daughter, accepting her grandfather's sword?

It took three blows of the sword to kill her, and throughout the ordeal she continued to scream protests of her innocence to the watching crowd.

My dissatisfaction with the chancellorship of George Osborne has not diminished with time, but even I should find it a little extreme to suggest that he fall on his sword.

Related: Ukip pledges to cut foreign aid and put DfID to the sword Miliband, Farage, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, the Green's Natalie Bennett and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood seemed to manage perfectly well without Cameron.