bludgeons
Example Sentences
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And while most of it is as predictably familiar as expected, it does something unusual for a movie like this: It entertains you, rather than bludgeons you into submission.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Hamilton: The widows and orphans and other alleged victims of Girardi mostly remain out of the picture, and if they’re discussed, it’s in a vague or remote way, or as rhetorical bludgeons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
What if a batted ball bludgeons a squirrel in fair territory and sends both ball and squirrel bounding into foul ground?
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2016
Writing in The Guardian, critic Xan Brooks says of it that it "bludgeons the body and tenderises the soul - it is perplexing, preposterous and utterly fascinating."
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2014
Lyra obeyed, half happy, half apprehensive, for Ma Costa had hands like bludgeons, and now she was sure: it was their boat she had captured with Roger and the other collegers.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
