truncheon

Example Sentences

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And who breaks a kite upon a truncheon?

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2020

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

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a cosh is "a stout stick, bludgeon or truncheon; a length of metal used as a life-preserver".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 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

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