brandishing

Example Sentences

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Brandishing charts that show the path to any objective, they see the future as knowable and amenable to our control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

Brandishing nukes had nothing to do with it.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

Brandishing a competitive nature and an extreme love of live entertainment, TV and movies since childhood, she never could have fathomed that a blend of all of those attributes could equate to a job.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Brandishing red, five-starred Chinese flags, two dozen Chinese nationals who identified themselves as Catholic devotees crowded around a police barrier to catch a glimpse of Francis on Saturday morning.

From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2023

Brandishing the plastic cutlass at Clyde, I cried, “Walk the plank, Admiral!”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole