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
Small groups of extremists, some members sporting brass knuckles, showed up at one farmers’ demonstration last month in the southern city of Montpellier.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
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
Last week, agents at U.S. airport security checkpoints intercepted 45 guns, an assortment of knives and brass knuckles, and several deactivated hand grenades.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015
