nightstick

Example Sentences

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And was the weapon a nightstick or a felt tip pen; was it the 14th Street subway station wall that was defaced, or was it the defacing of a man?

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2017

He wore a gun on one side and a nightstick on the other.

From Time • Dec. 25, 2014

If it turns into a nightstick, congratulations—you are a “guard”! Your job is to watch over the “prisoners” on your Friends List.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2014

The aesthetic nightstick in that opening scene is the song that starts to play when the cowering heroine accidentally bumps into a boom box and clicks the power button: Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces."

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2011

A policeman, bored and tired, dragged his nightstick along the bars of an iron fence.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte