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Example sentences for "ronin"

Lexicographically close words:
rond; rondels; rondo; ronea; rong; ronins; ronique; ronne; rons; ronte
  1. When the Ronin had slain their dead lord's persecutor and had given themselves up to the authorities, they were found worthy of death.

  2. The happiest fate for the Ronin was a righteous death, and as their admiring sympathiser the abbot expressed his unwillingness to do anything which might have the effect of saving them from so glorious an end.

  3. Yet it was the privilege of a priest to ask for mercy, and in the matter of the lives of the Ronin the Shogun would not be unwilling to listen to a plea for mercy.

  4. A more successful series, also definitely inspired by Sharaku's Ronin busts, was a set of full-length Ronin figures which Toyokuni then brought out.

  5. They, of course, were only too glad to avoid any hindrance to their onward journey, and all with one voice agreed to what the ronin had proposed; and so the matter was settled.

  6. While serving as dancer in the great temple she fell in love with a ronin named Nagoya Sanza--a desperate, handsome vagabond, with no fortune in the world but his sword.

  7. Formerly there lived at Kamakura the wife of a Ronin [4] named Soga Sadayoshi.

  8. But from the story of her after-life it would seem that the face of the handsome ronin who had perished through his passion for her became a haunting memory.

  9. The ronin headed by Yui Shosetsu and Marubashi Chuya plotted to set fire to the city of Yedo and take the shogun's castle.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ronin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.