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

The nation’s largest retailer will also be required to stop selling and allowing any sales of brass knuckles on its website.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2023

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