nightstick
Example Sentences
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Oh, and a responding officer who has the quote-worthy line: "Look, I don't know a nutcracker from my nightstick, but I know danger when I see it."
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2020
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
It used to be an officer had a flashlight, maybe a nightstick, and their hands and mouth.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2015
He wore a gun on one side and a nightstick on the other.
From Time ● Dec. 25, 2014
He awoke on a bench in the Long Island Railroad Station, a cop rapping on his boots with a nightstick, his escape money gone, the MacNamara sisters ready to eat him alive in Brooklyn.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
