Used in a Sentence

shuriken

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shuriken.

Editorial note

It has more sharp edges than a shuriken put through a blender.

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Quick take

A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shuriken gathered in one view.

noun

A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shuriken.

noun

A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).

Example sentences

1

It has more sharp edges than a shuriken put through a blender.

2

Lets not mention about the many shuriken in the American flag.

3

Imagine not being able to buy a decorative shuriken or whatever.

4

Fast forward a bit and I had acquired a shuriken.

5

In their coloring I see lots of three-studded shuriken-like shapes.

6

I don't know how long shuriken is for this world (good riddance imo, vfx graph is so much better.) Shadergraph adds and loses nodes every version.

7

There's this sincere temptation to make everything bigger and better than the last one, but when you get to the point where your mech battles are literally using galaxies as shuriken, you can't really get much bigger.

8

> At some point I acquired a shuriken, which would increase your total HP by 1 every time you equipped it Dear god, why does such an item even exist?

9

You're not a freaking ninja, unless you wear a black suit and funny shoes, climb trees, move (very) silently, throw shuriken, blow poison darts, assassinate people, and war with Samurai.

Quote examples

1

While Dong Nyguen took the application "Flappy Bird" off the App Store, his other games, "Super Ball Juggling" and "Shuriken Block" still remain.

2

As cute as that might have seemed, I quickly grew tired of asking questions like, "Should I be using the Shuriken or the Wazikashi here?" We ended up scrapping that code and doing a ground-up rewrite.

3

I think most mainstream historians believe ninjas (as depicted in pop culture: assassins clad in black, with almost supernatural infiltration abilities, armed with shuriken, "opposed" to the samurai, etc) are completely fictional.

4

We are just used to project a cube in a way that prevents to see its linearly-spatial configuration (a projection messes up lengths), but if you preserve these lengths and "flatten" them instead, a cube will flatten out to a sort of a shuriken.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shuriken in a sentence?

It has more sharp edges than a shuriken put through a blender.

What does shuriken mean?

A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).

What part of speech is shuriken?

shuriken is commonly used as noun.