brandish

How To Use brandish In A Sentence

• Witnesses said Yuwono was dragged from his house by a number of people brandishing machetes and other sharp weapons, who later stabbed him.
• They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Widdershins
• His moment of glory came in a raid on a Kilburn flat when the tenant brandished a loaded gun in his face. The Sun
• He appeared in the lounge brandishing a knife.
• The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
• Chisholm says he is firmly anchored in publicly funded healthcare, and brandishes a copy of the Wanless Report as his New Year holiday reading.
• Lawlor brandished a butcher's knife, the two fought in the hallway, police were called, and Johnson left the Prestwick. Falls Church man Mark Lawlor convicted of capital murder of Genevieve Orange
• He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt. Times, Sunday Times
• Then she brandished a small hand-held blender. Times, Sunday Times
• We stropped our straight razors, brandished horsehair wands.