truncheon
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We snap back to the present, where Cortez—that’s the name on the back of the football jersey of this conquistador—flicks down an eye shield and snaps a truncheon to the ready.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 6, 2019
He’s such a menace that it’s tempting to cheer any vituperative critic and grab any handy truncheon.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2018
The butcher handed one of their puddings to the prince, who said, “My word, it’s like a truncheon, isn’t it? Will you please give Mr McCabe my best wishes?”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2018
Somehow with just 19 pro victories he had quick-lipped his way into a world-heavyweight bout with Sonny Liston, the gangsters’ pal with the truncheon fists, against whom he was an 8-1 underdog.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2016
He held it up like a boy holding a stick of rock or a constable with his truncheon, looked at it, nibbled its tail.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Children giggle and run as kilikis with soft foam truncheons bop them if they get too close.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
He said policemen whose job was to control the crowds in front of the emergency department only carried truncheons.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
"Unjustified arrests, unexplained delays, police cordons, masks and truncheons," nationalist lawmaker and former soccer executive Igor Lebedev commented on Twitter, describing last month's Russian Cup final in Samara.
From Fox News ● Jun. 14, 2019
Their wages shrivelled by inflation post-World War One, police officers in the Massachusetts city got organised and in 1919 downed their truncheons.
From BBC ● May 6, 2018
The two condottieri attended the ceremony, arrayed in full armour, and received the white truncheons that were the emblems of their command.
From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael
Fancy finding a real bar whence drinks may be obtained! and, joy of joys, fancy stepping out of the hotel into the arms of a live, white, helmeted, buttoned, truncheoned Bobby!
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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