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brandishing

verb as in flaunt, swing around

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When not screaming or yelling hysterically, Samuel is brandishing makeshift weapons and pushing his cousins off a tree house.

The 12-year-old boy was shot by a police officer after brandishing what turned out to be a BB gun.

A handful of them could be seen brandishing tree branches and table legs as weapons.

Their brandishing of totems, their busting of taboos is real world stuff, not symbolic.

An angry mob brandishing machetes, stones, and knives lashed out.

She looked, and beheld Aubrey brandishing a great flaming paper—he dropped it at the exclamation—it fell burning on the carpet.

The driver was leaning over the wall, brandishing his whip, his face empurpled, roaring like a bull.

A minute later he burst from the room, brandishing a dripping dagger, and leaving Tettu Agha dead on his own dais.

There he took his crimson dress about him, and the heads were put upon their shafts, and he stood brandishing them.

Yelling and brandishing swords and flares, they rushed the barricade.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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