(n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bloody-minded defending was switched to a rapier attack in the blink of an eye.
(2) Rapier added that the money announced in the White House initiative on Monday was not a large amount “in dollars” but was vital in terms of the principle of exploring a new approach to a problem that is “devastating” for those it affects and has blown up relatively recently in some areas.
(3) Until now it has been suggested that he bled to death within a couple of minutes, stabbed only once by a rapier.
(4) As the day went on the column revealed their bewilderment at David Cameron’s resignation, their shock at the Twitterstorm of “keenly worded, rapier-sharp attacks” from remainers, and their son’s suggestion of a therapeutic game of Monopoly.
(5) Rapier said it was the first time law enforcement and public health experts would specifically work together under a federal program to tackle the “new heroin epidemic”.
(6) The ABC report said the soldiers were hunting an insurgent bombmaker codenamed Rapier.
(7) Last weekend’s assault on the social and cultural centre in Hammersmith was carried out with a can of paint, but cut through the west London Polish community like a rapier, until the tip reached Jan Black.
(8) Depay, expected to start instead of the suspended Robin Van Persie but left on the bench in favour of underwhelming Jeremain Lens, added a second at the end from a rapier-like Arjen Robben run and cross.
(9) My consultant's notes refer to the tests simply as "bloods", which sounds nicely cavalier ("Huzzah, sir, pick up your rapier!")
(10) A Rapier short-range air defence system at Blackheath, London, in 2012.
(11) It seeks to use state power as a rapier not a bludgeon.
(12) Rapid rise of heroin use in US tied to prescription opioid abuse, CDC suggests Read more Rapier, who is from a federal law enforcement background, said many police officers had to come around to the idea that many drug addicts need a second or third chance to kick heroin without punishment, and controversial services such as public needle exchanges can work.
(13) The flower-in-buttonhole and smiling anecdote, the rapier mind, the warmth and generosity were his hallmarks.
(14) This is not a regular law enforcement initiative; we don’t just want to put people in jail,” Frank Rapier, the director of the Appalachia regional office of the federal high-intensity drug trafficking area program (HIDTA), told the Guardian.
(15) Everyone is in their own ‘silo’ and there are walls and barriers, which we don’t want in this fight Frank Rapier Experts are scrambling to deal with the rise in overdose deaths sparked by large numbers of people who had become dependent on prescription opioid painkillers then switched to heroin as a result of crackdowns on the flow of illegal or over-prescribed pills and the availability of cheap heroin.
(16) In a characteristic play on his words, Carr has called his current show Rapier Wit.
(17) He was selling some byproducts of Britain’s lucrative shooting industry (byproducts because the main product is “fun”): woodpigeon and 14 woodcock , their rapier-like beaks tucked inside their carcasses.
(18) The cost of insuring loans issued by Greece, Portugal and Ireland soared after Moody's interrupted the wrangling in the EU over how to bail out Greece for a second time with a Rapier missile.
Repartee
Definition:
(n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
(v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
(2) Imagine, if you will, Crabb, her basket crammed with scones and jam, rapping on the security gates at Eddie Obeid’s sprawling residence and then exchanging witty repartee while he works the stoves.
(3) During his first two stints as president, the former KGB agent demonstrated his gift at G8 gatherings and other international get-togethers for sardonic repartee mixed with snide remarks about western hypocrisy and double-dealing.
(4) Like other despots, Putin doesn’t have a sense of humour (though he can do sardonic repartee).
(5) In Stage Door (1937), she had wonderful battles of repartee with Ginger Rogers.
(6) And while the repartee goes on he is actually producing a painting: "I am trying to make a W out of cats," he says, twirling his brush.
(7) The tools of his trade are not manifestos and "worked-up" policies, but a pleasant face, a winning smile, some eye contact and cheery repartee.
(8) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
(9) It is surely no coincidence that, during their delightful repartee about the female assistant referee Sian Massey and the West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady, the disgraced duo similarly dismissed the female gender as "they".
(10) Pride and Prejudice is carefree in comparison, matching witty, warring lovers who act out their attraction in ironical repartee.
(11) Women are at least as intelligent as men, and they have as vivid and ready a perception of the absurd; but they have not developed the arts of fooling, clowning, badinage, repartee, burlesque and innuendo into a semi-continuous performance as so many men have.
(12) Never failing to laugh at the witty repartee, this tournament has been grand, and I do not care why.