Below you will find example sentences with "bear arms". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Bear Arms in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: arms
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.5 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "bear arms" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as right to bear arms, do not bear arms disrupt the, keep, salute and gun stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with black bear, brown bear, polar bear and arms control, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with bear arms

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

They want to take away your right to bear arms. (10 words)

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (14 words)

It remains far lower than in the United States, and Brazil has no constitutional right to bear arms. (18 words)

There’s some people in the country that say we should not carry arms, and there’s some people (saying) that we have the right to bear arms,” said Lewis Pearlman of Philadelphia, a 44-year member of the church who brought a gun to the service. (47 words)

It is also said that the style of salute may also signify that he/she (that is saluting) bears no arms (weapons) as those that bear arms salute with their rifle or sword, at the present arms for a royal salute or general salute. (44 words)

A dispute over American customs officers’ legal protections has kept Nexus enrolment centres closed in Canada more than three months after they reopened south of the border — due in part to a clash over U.S. agents’ right to bear arms on Canadian soil. (44 words)

Why do we let civilians bear arms indiscriminately and helplessly watch them as they turn those arms on fellow civilians? (20 words)

Example sentences (20)

The right to keep and bear arms implies the right to keep and bear the ammunition and magazines required for those arms to function.

It is also said that the style of salute may also signify that he/she (that is saluting) bears no arms (weapons) as those that bear arms salute with their rifle or sword, at the present arms for a royal salute or general salute.

Instead of saying “we must have the right to bear arms’, he said “We must have the right to bare arms”.

One of those "freedoms" was a guarantee to protect the right not only to bear arms, but to raise those arms against an established government that no longer gives a damn about its citizens.

There’s some people in the country that say we should not carry arms, and there’s some people (saying) that we have the right to bear arms,” said Lewis Pearlman of Philadelphia, a 44-year member of the church who brought a gun to the service.

Why do we let civilians bear arms indiscriminately and helplessly watch them as they turn those arms on fellow civilians?

If "bear arms" means, as we think, simply the carrying of arms, a modifier can limit the purpose of the carriage ("for the purpose of self-defense" or "to make war against the King").

The helmet is borne of right, and forms no part of a grant of arms; it may be assumed without authority by anyone entitled to bear arms, together with mantling and whatever motto the armiger may desire.

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A dispute over American customs officers’ legal protections has kept Nexus enrolment centres closed in Canada more than three months after they reopened south of the border — due in part to a clash over U.S. agents’ right to bear arms on Canadian soil.

It remains far lower than in the United States, and Brazil has no constitutional right to bear arms.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Throughout the movie, Doss was often looked down upon for refusing to bear arms, earning him zero respect from his fellow soldiers.

Abbott signed off on Perry's pardon last week, which also fully restored his right to bear arms.

Mills spoke about the legislation during her State of the State address, saying her proposals would provide more public safety while respecting the right to bear arms and Maine’s strong traditions of gun ownership and access.

The complaint, which named only then-Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Robert Evanchick as a defendant, argued that if young adults could join the military and bear arms, then they should be permitted to carry a gun in public.

The leaders should ensure that their members do not bear arms, disrupt the peace of other citizens, and take laws into their own hands.

The right to keep and bear arms always will remain essential to a free state, and law-abiding Americans always will be the first line of defense for themselves and their loved ones against threats to their life, liberty, and property.

The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with gun rights groups in finding the state's ban violated the rights of 18- to 20-year-olds under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment to keep and bear arms.

They want to take away your right to bear arms.

This American had an idea that might help her British cousins, a suggestion that we should adopt a Second Amendment style ‘right to bear arms’ which would make all our problems – well, quite a few of them – go away.

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