Example Sentences

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In exchange, they demanded that the whalers return with 200 muskets.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

An initial excavation last summer revealed chimney bases and uncovered a military buckle and lead shot for muskets.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

With muskets drawn, Napoleon asks the chambers, “Shall we vote?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

His aim is to confirm the holes were from muskets fired in the 1839 Newport Chartist Rising.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023

Then he was out the other side of town, and there were piles of stacked Union muskets, blankets and canteens and wagons, the abandoned implements of war.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara