truncheon

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

A man with a smooth prizefighter’s jowl in which the mouth was only a slit paused opposite him, balancing his truncheon meditatively between thumb and forefinger.

From "1984" by George Orwell