Kamuka handled his machete easily, despite the pack that he carried.
The machete had clipped the head from a snake which had been rearing to strike at Biff's leg.
The speaker approached his captive, his musket resting in the hollow of his arm, his machete hanging at his side.
He shrugged his brawny shoulders and, thrusting the machete beneath his arm, took the trail out through the mangrove swamp.
Removing the machete from his neck, he wrung the water from his cotton trousers.
Then, hearing the scrape of her captor's machete as he drew it from its scabbard, she renewed her struggle more fiercely.
Among the fugitives who slunk along the winding bridle-paths that once had been roads there was a mulatto youth of scarcely twenty, who carried a machete beneath his arm.
Even as he sprang to his feet he disengaged the huge steel machete which always dangled from his belt.
While Jud was sampling a bit of honeycomb, Pinto borrowed Hen's machete and cut a deep gash through the rough red bark of the tree.
And he grasped his machetejust as Jud loosened his revolver.
Pinto slashed with all his might with his machete at the back of the great snake, but it was like attempting to cut through steel-studded leather.
Suddenly the trapper heard the slash of the negro's machete just behind him, and turned around to see him cutting the head from a coiled rattlesnake over which Jud had stepped.
The machete is drawn from its sheath; and a large hole cut through the stretched skin, that covers the light framework of wood.
In another instant his arms were pinioned to his sides--both the butt of his pistol and the hilt of his machete beyond the grasp of his fingers!
The machete is the invariable companion of the poorer and middle classes of Mexicans, and the multiplicity of uses to which it is dedicated are something wonderful to the uninitiated.
Occasionally the blades are ornamented with gold or silver, but the ordinary machete is perfectly plain.
It can be used for many purposes, but the machete can be used for all the purposes for which an axe is used, except for heavy pounding, and is admirably adapted for many other uses.
Millions of people from Texas to Patagonia have long found the machete an ever-ready tool.
In short, there is scarcely any cutting about a camp which cannot be done far better with a machete than with the best of axes, and the price is the same as that of an axe.
The traveller will carry a machete which is like a heavy sword, and may be straight like a rapier, or curved somewhat, like a cavalry sword.
The ice thus broken, the Cuban's machete was examined and the wearer induced to give an exhibition of its use both as a weapon and a handy tool for many purposes.
They were barefooted and bareheaded but all had the inevitable machete and some kind of a firearm, from the latest model Spanish Mauser and the navy Lee to an old shotgun.
Next these thorny points are severed by a macheteand in small bundles of six or eight the leaves are handed to men who are feeding a sliding belt-like platform about a yard wide, and on this they are conveyed to the machine.
It looks worth a climb, and with axe and machete we make our way to it.
The natives face them with the machete as their only weapon, and show much courage often in tracking them to the caves where they shelter.
While your machete is at work and the bush tops and branches fall around you, the midget fiends keep off a bit.
As often as politeness permitted, she fled to the ground reserved for her, but they followed her there, and in desperation she would take a machete and hack at the bush, praying the while, so that her voice was lost in the noise she made.
One of the infants was dead, and Jean took hermachete and dug a little cavity in the ground, and upon some soft leaves the child was laid and covered up.
Thinking it was some wild animal, she seized a macheteand hacked at it.
With his ever-ready machete he cut down a young tree and trimmed the top branches off, leaving the stumps sticking out about six inches on every side.
The backs of the two Spaniards were toward us, and my guide drew his machete and motioned as if to stab them both.
At one side, a mulatto in dirty linen and an old straw hat was hospitably using a machete to cut open some green cocoanuts for a group of idle invaders.
I took this from the body of an officer whom I killed machete to machete.
This was a Cuban officer who held in one hand a great glittering machete and in the other a cocked revolver.
The machete is a fine broad blade but it is not so nice as a drilled hole in the chest; no man wants his death-bed to be a shambles.
Don Miguel shouted, as he cut down with his machete all within his reach.
For more than half an hour it was impossible to recognize each other; the rifles, the lances, the arrows, and machetestrokes were interchanged with prodigious rapidity.
A machete is a long strong knife, and he used it to cut up the wood into small pieces.
So he cut down a hollow-stemmed weed with his machete and made a pipe out of it.
Daling nagíbang ang sundang kay dabung pagkapanday, The machete knicks easily because it has not been tempered long enough.
A; a] slash or hack with a machete or similar long knife.
Gidugkal níya sa sundang ang punúan sa káhuy, He thrust a machete into the tree trunk.
A; b] clean a field of standing, dry grain stalks by cutting them with a machete or similar knife attached to a sled-like device drawn by a water buffalo.
Halus makatagsip sa pánit sa káhuy ning sundánga, This machete can hardly cut the bark off a tree.
Haslúa ang sundang sa sakub, Pull the machete out of the sheath.
Standing over him, whirling his bloodstainedmachete about his head and yelling in fiendish glee was a huge gaunt negro.
The Indian made a quick pass with his machete and severed the snake's body about four inches from the head, leaving the head still clinging to his leg.
He stuck the point of the machete down through the snake's mouth, and twisting it around pried the jaws apart, when the head dropped to the ground.
Of course, we carried a machete and a mattock apiece, though the latter was but little use, and, if either of us should find any spot worth dynamiting, we agreed to let the other know.
A machete is a heavy weapon that needs no little skill in handling with economy of force, and Tom, who had been brought up to it, was, in spite of his years, a better practitioner than I.
This time, however, he wielded a machete in each hand.
That's the trouble with thismachete business," he now thought to himself.
Diaz's men," he thought, slipping his machete half out of its scabbard.
The bunch he cut away with his machete was ready for shipment, and perfect.
Here and there the two foot blade of a machete gleamed.
The man in the mask drew his machete from its sheath and his pistol from his belt, and ran to the door, which was suddenly burst open.
Pedrito leapt from his horse, cut with his machete a branch of resinous fir, which he made into a torch, and by its light examined the bodies stretched on the ground.
The animal writhed on the ground, and the capataz ran up to it, machete in hand.
I will merely cross my machete with your sabre, which will not only re-establish the balance between us, but also give you a signal advantage over me.
It was impossible, and I can tell you that, though the cruel machete accounted for many, exposure, want, and disease killed thousands more.
Remember that I was to have felt the edge of cold steel myself, for your orders were that the machete was to be used to kill me.
The flint knife of former days has now been replaced by the machete which serves the purpose of both cutlass and chopping-knife, and without it no native ever goes into the woods.
The universal machete carried by man and boy serves many purposes, such as chopping firewood, killing animals, eating, and building houses.
The steel machete and the knife have entirely displaced their ancient silex tools, of which some relics may still be found among the Lacandones.
He had no rifle, but carried an old machete with which he had hacked his way home through the dense bush paths.
The next minute he had gone and the boys started down the trail cut by the machete men, by which the army had advanced from the beach.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "machete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hatchet; jackknife; knife; pick; tool
