Thesaurus / strong-arm

strong-arm

How to use strong-arm in a sentence

He argued that coercion was necessary; that crime could not be put down in Ireland but by the strong arm of the law.

Lady Margaret was her father's only heir; but she was far away, and a man with a strong arm was needed in that troubled seigneury.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

When we crossed the equator, a committee of strong-arm men baptized those of the passengers who had never before crossed the line.

IN AFRICAJOHN T. MCCUTCHEON

Aubrey and the bunch are talking about making a strong-arm squad around me for protection.

Saturninus was the first of the Roman politicians to rely as a regular practice upon "strong-arm methods" to carry elections.

I will protect your imposture with the strong arm of the law.

He put his strong arm around her, and repeated the single word "Mother" often and earnestly.

ALL HE KNEWJOHN HABBERTON

Came pretty near getting shot, then, as the strong-arm boys thought I'd made the runabout go wrong a-purpose.

Who has not known such without longing for a whip of scorpions, and a strong arm to wield it?

I can see what would happen to me—Julius Marston doing it—if I give the strong-arm squad an opening.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985