Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor put to the sword
1. In one battle 400,000 enemy soldiers were put to the sword.
2. Economists have welcomed the reverse as a sign that the deflationary dragon has finally been put to the sword.
3. Thousands of councillors will be put to the sword unless the party signals its intention to change.
4. On August 5 at Clyst St Mary, east of Exeter, the Cornish rebels were butchered with some 4,000 eventually put to the sword.
5. The social care inspectorate is to be put to the sword, despite being generally reckoned to have made an impressive fist of things.