mace

Example Sentences

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The effect here isn’t simply to wow us by Hemsworth taking some bear mace to the face or threatening to plummet from a frightening height, although those possibilities also make good TV.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

He said that the values inscribed on the mace his mother had given the Parliament 25 years ago - wisdom, justice, compassion and integrity - were the "most Scottish of values".

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

She said her brother was sprayed with bear mace and left the encampment Wednesday morning to wash up in his dorm room.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024

Evidence includes fishing-net weights; tools made of basalt, a stone that does not naturally occur along this part of the eastern Mediterranean coast; and a ceremonial mace head.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

The manservant ducked into the alcove behind a fourteenth-century knight, complete with lance and mace.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer