brass knuckles

Example Sentences

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Bold works can hit with such a wallop that it takes a beat to gauge their lasting impact, to tell which set of brass knuckles left a mark: love or hate?

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

It even comes complete with custom typography based on Radio Raheem’s “LOVE/HATE” brass knuckles from “Do the Right Thing.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

Business and civic leaders, in the large corporations and the elite universities, should grow some brass knuckles, too.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2020

He crafts dialogue with the florid, evocative quality endemic to writers who get their start on pulp literature, wielding similes like brass knuckles.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2019

Did you know Jacques Lacan, the most celebrated psychoanalyst of his time, used to carry a set of brass knuckles?

From Washington Post • May 15, 2018