wielding
Example Sentences
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Chris Hemsworth, taking a break from wielding Thor’s hammer, stars as a meticulous Los Angeles jewel thief with no past and no fixed identity; his real name, or one of them, is apparently James Davis.
It was there, decades before brandishing the Fraser broadsword, he made his first appearance in front of an audience - wielding a different weapon as "spear carrier number two" during a production of Macbeth aged 18.
From BBC
Preparatory drawings preceded the wielding of the brush.
Soaking in pools, cooling off in caves and even wielding spears: The 35 wild chimps of the Fongoli community have adapted to the environment with behaviours that defy their species' conventional norms.
From Barron's
The term “Aqua fitness” may conjure images of seniors tepidly wielding foam noodles to ‘50s pop tunes. But Porciuncula’s water fitness classes are … “hard,” as he puts it.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
