billy

Example Sentences

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We could see into that Holiday Inn through its plate glass windows and observe cops walking around its lobby with billy clubs, keeping a watchful eye on us.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

He called California’s billy club ban “a very vague and nebulous law that has been abused for decades in California.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

The challenged California law bans the possession, manufacture, importation or sale of “any leaded cane, or any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a billy, blackjack, sandbag, sandclub, sap, or slungshot.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Mr. Roman in 2008 first publicized “the presence of two members of the New Black Panther Party — one carrying a billy club — outside of a Philadelphia polling site.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023

She was careful to keep the hole itself blocked so he wouldn’t notice it as she hooked his billy goats into their traces.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack