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.
They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feathered bonnets.
The Prime Minister will brandish his meaningless majority after the Division tonight and claim it as a mandate for Maastricht.
But for the dog, each and every brandishment of the fuzzy orb produces the same wondrous glee.
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed. Archive 2007-04-01
No weapon was brandished nor was any word spoken to suggest that there was a weapon.
Brandishing a photo of the plane, which he described as a P-3, Chavez said the overflight was the latest violation of Venezuelan airspace by the U.S. military from its bases on the Netherlands 'Caribbean islands and from neighboring Colombia. Legitgov
It happened one night when he returned from a family party in a drunken stupor, brandishing a shotgun and threatening to kill his wife and child.
The pro-Tiger Diaspora still dreams of the map of Tamil Eelam which is brandished at all demonstrations and will continue to be for a while. Kottu
They were brandishing pick handles. Times, Sunday Times
Brandishing a photo of the plane, which he described as a P-3, Chavez said the overflight was the latest violation of Venezuelan airspace by the U.S. military from its bases on the Netherlands 'Caribbean islands and from neighbouring Colombia. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Police have raided the home of an elderly couple following reports of a man brandishing a sawn-off shotgun.
The knifeman claimed throughout that he also had a firearm and brandished a weapon at police from under a blanket.
Yanking him back, pulling him out of the virtual back to actuality... and Peal was standing over him, brandishing a wrench. METAPLANETARY
The closest thing Latinos have is El Guapo's arch enemy - Edward James Olmos - who, at worst, may simply shake his head disapprovingly from his Beverly Hills rumpus room and brandish a microwave chimichanga at the television screen at news of a proposed Congressional Bill aimed at mandating that landscapers work while wearing proof of citizenship like a Flava-Flav clock. El Guapo: WANTED: Latino Al Sharpton
He abhorred the arrogant youngsters intruding on companies of whose staff and products they were wholly ignorant, brandishing maxims that threw hundreds out of work.
He stormed in brandishing his weapon and bellowed at staff and customers, including a rather shocked police officer, that a stick-up was under way.
Against a flat midnight-blue background the roistering figures tumble about, squabbling with each other or brandishing colourful fire-sticks.
The dogs, indeed, would caper about, and bark round the opposing parties in a way that was at least inspiriting; but my Sandy Tom brandished his tail and took flying leaps upon no principle whatever; and as to Fatima's tortoise, it never budged from the beginning of the conflict to the end. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
Occasionally a single horseman would gallop up and brandish his spear, while he covered himself with his large leathern shield, returning as fast as he went and shouting: "Shields to the wall, you soldiers of the _gadado_! Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
Two armed robbers brandishing sawn-off shotguns then burst through the debris to threaten staff inside.
In the later print, the blacksmith is seen brandishing a leg of ham and the Frenchman has been replaced by a paver who fondles a market seller.
The raider was brandishing a weapon which gardai have refused to be more specific about.
Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her, she ploughed her way out into the open air.
In contrast, people and other jawed vertebrates brandish adaptive immune systems.
At first Hector brandished his sword eyeing Achilles as a soaring eagle would a timid lamb. Peripheral Anthropomorphism and the Fall of Troy
Instantly the lions of Solomon, which had been newly furbished, raised their heads, erected their manes, brandished their tails, until they excited the imagination of Count Robert, who, being already on fire at the circumstances of his reception, conceived the bellowing of these automata to be the actual annunciation of immediate assault. Count Robert of Paris
Those who brandish or discharge firearms in a public place would, in all but the rarest cases, be locked up.
The boy supped and brandished the weapons and in the process broke them all to shivers and splinters.
They brandish the ancient weapons of the Dani tribe that dominates this valley: bows and arrows, spears and crude knives.
He was brandishing a small knife in his left hand. Times, Sunday Times
They invoke their particular (and often overlapping, and indeed she was one of his) gods and plunge out of downscale teenage bedrooms, brandishing shards of imagery as peculiarly-shaped as prison shivs.
He whipped the lo October edition of the Sun out of his pocket and brandished the front page.
Above: These colonial anemones are each brandishing hundreds of stinging cells.
Like a pirate reaching into a treasure chest, he brandishes myriad gold chains, pendants, watches, bracelets and rings.
Brandishing a photo of the plane, which he described as a P-3, Chavez said the overflight was the latest violation of Venezuelan airspace by the US military from its bases on the Netherlands 'Caribbean islands and from neighbouring Colombia. Daily News & Analysis
But when they reached for substance, they tended to brandish shopworn proposals targeted at narrow and increasingly elderly groups of voters.
Perhaps I have dozed a bit, for I must have turned the coin, unthinking, and now I see the reverse: a horseman, in full panoply, galloping, with naked sword brandished in his left hand, from which depends a severed head tight-clutched by long, flowing hair. The Lion's Brood
She also appeared before magistrates for brandishing a pickaxe during an argument with her boyfriend.
Remember when the mobile Internet was going to reshape the economic order, and we'd all brandish our phones to watch videos and feed parking meters?
The assassin fell as he sprang from the box to the stage, where he brandished his bloody dagger, yelled with terrible theatricalism, "_sic semper tyrannis_," and stalking lamely from the platform disappeared in the darkness and rode away. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
Above his locker was his nameplate, brandishing both his name and his number.
After a lot of tick-ticking from my bright orange watch, Tyler walked, no, swaggered over, brandishing a scrap of paper triumphantly.
The horseman came up to Robin Hood, brandishing his sword.
The president - elect has brandished his reputation for non - partisanship and for a willingness to negotiate.
A man leapt out brandishing a kitchen knife.
He strode toward her, not appearing the least intimidated by the dirk she brandished. Healing the Highlander
Ar. a dexter hand brandishing a sabre trenchant ppr hilt gold. A History of Caroline County, Virginia
There was a veritable rash of young white guys, running confusedly around the electorate brandishing postcards.
I saw weapons brandished as the whooping and yelling grew louder; here was Spotted Tail, his huge buckskinned figure thrusting through the throng as he shouted to Young-Man-Afraid; now he was under the canopy, addressing Mills. Isabelle
Give us 'egalite': Inspired by Obama, leading French figures brandish anti-racist manifesto ABC News: ABCNews
Glory brandished the sword threateningly, gripping the hilt tightly. The Warslayer
Lukoszevieze brandishes a meat cleaver and brings it down on a substantial joint of meat.
When she was still in her early teens, this man who was a toughie, jumped on to the stage after her dance, brandishing a knife, and told her, ‘You have to be mine.’
Young girls, middle teens probably, some in braids, all in the dress of the period, by the side of a road brandishing small swastika pennants and cheering. Glad to be Wrong about the Election « Antiwar.com Blog
Then they dart around brandishing weapons, hitting each other. Times, Sunday Times
The pickup driver then opened the driver's side of the van brandishing a handgun.
As for the role of the small-arms trade, although an adolescent brandishing an AK-47 is certainly terrifying, most child soldiers never touch a weapon.
This issue finds Cinderella disarming the assailant that slipped into her room brandishing a knife, and after an exchange of pleasantries, readers discover her would be foe is actually Aladdin of the magic lamp (and ring) fame. Review: Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
The ship arrived brandishing his archiepiscopal cross defiantly at the prow.
Lefty Liberal, I must confess to a certain perverse desire to see these obese old fools try to get it up, given all the machismo bluster and weapon brandishing. Think Progress » Tea partiers skip prayer and Pledge of Allegiance at opening of national convention.
The ashplant brandishing is as much satire as mythmaking, but it points up the deeply Romantic underpinnings of Ulysses. Archive 2007-06-01
Armed police stormed a house in Rotherham following reports of a man walking the streets brandishing a pistol.
A man leapt out brandishing a kitchen knife.
He stormed in brandishing his weapon and bellowed at staff and customers, including a rather shocked police officer, that a stick-up was under way.
When the head barista came out brandishing a long sharp knife to slice open the plastic all that was revealed was a pile of cardboard boxes of the catering kind.
He brandished his knife, showing them that he was unafraid and would not hesitate to attack if they tried to rush him.
The undead come in all shapes and sizes, from regular old ghouls to nasty crimson zombies that brandish razor-sharp claws and run faster than the characters.
Openly riding their horses in gangs of several dozen, at night they set fires, brandish [their] weapons, and plunder residents' goods.
Every one of his followers started up at the command, and mingled as they were among their late allies, prepared too for such a surprisal, each had, in an instant, his next neighbour by the collar, while his right hand brandished a broad dagger that glimmered against lamplight and moonshine. Quentin Durward
Senators like Jean Carnahan went out of their way to brandish their hunting rifles.
Then they dart around brandishing weapons, hitting each other. Times, Sunday Times
A mob came over the hill yelling and brandishing sticks.
How about the new wave of pop punkers that have automatic entrée into the charts but who still brandish their credentials because they have a defined sound?
Ford, brandishing a heavy pistol in each hand, blasted away all around him like a crazed gunslinger as the survivors and his crew leapt or were carried aboard the ship.
Sullen youths smoking clove cigarettes, wizened old ladies hunched over baskets of shallots, krupuk sellers, batik-clad matrons shopping for fish, the occasional leathery homeless man brandishing a tin begging cup. Laura Silverman: Nose-to-Tail Eating in Indonesia
They have already been used to record a confrontation with a man brandishing an iron bar. Times, Sunday Times
With a great cry, a whole host of horsemen rode forth from the inner courtyard, brandishing swords, pikes and halberds alike.
Out enough that she wouldn’t mind having her name brandished across the NY Jewish news circuit as having been dismissed from her job for being lesbian? The First Annual Greasy Latkes: Mislabeling the JCC | Jewschool
My father cussed, brandishing a fallen stick and rapping him across his haunches.
Referee Peter McCarthy refused to stand for any nonsense and brandished a succession of cards.
The exception is a sword brandished by a crusader-knight in the “Foam Soldier of God Photo Frame Magnet Craft Kit”. Holy Warrior Toys Sell in America
The muscular bronze statue of King Afonso brandishing a broadsword outside his 10th-century fortress is a fitting place to start a stroll through the city. Within Portugal's Cradle
Krinak saw the elder lemkin emerge from the dust, brandishing his stick at the giant as he said, You! The Size of Things « A Fly in Amber
Brandishing their swords,they rode into battle.
He marched around the aerodrome brandishing it like a laird striding through the heather. Bomber
The shirt includes a colourful motif of our unforgotten friend from the dark side brandishing a hurling stick!
Some were armed with bottles and others brandished weapons including coshes or iron bars, a screwdriver and a knife.
The six riders jumped at the thunderous exclamation from a bush, which revealed a tall, solidly built man brandishing a sword.
He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt. Times, Sunday Times
When the junior senator from Wyoming brandishes a piece of paper on the Senate floor (where, as a character points out, libel laws do not apply) to proclaim, "I have here in my hand ..." he clearly calls out the glowering ghost of the junior senator from Wisconsin. At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs
They were brandishing pick handles. Times, Sunday Times
They have already been used to record a confrontation with a man brandishing an iron bar. Times, Sunday Times
A call received at the FCR from CCTV that a man dressed in paramilitary clothing was brandishing a firearm in the square of a small valley town. Simple Minds « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
All brandishing their162 brands of quenchless fire, The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great
A woman and her children fled from a house and took refuge in a nearby shop when a man in the house brandished a bread knife.
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by wards, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool utterly trashed. Rhetorical Thirst (rev)
Online hordes massed, brandishing rolling pins and placards, ready to tear down the bunting and upturn the ovens. The Sun
Abruptly she'd lifted the knife from my belly and was brandishing it above me, weaving it back and forth in time to her incantation. NIGHT SISTERS
One brandished a bicycle seat, the other a salad that spilled onto the sidewalk.
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed. Archive 2007-04-01
In her writing she recounts a story about one lovesick cowboy who brandished a pistol at her.
Duke of Marlborough brandishing a truncheon upon a sign-post, surrounded with types and emblems, and canopied with cornucopias that disembogue their stores upon his head; Mercuries reclin'd upon bales of goods; The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
Of course, the downside of this is that if you're extremely sensitive, as I am, it means you need to protect yourself from people who take a malicious pleasure in sharpening their blades on your misfortunes and brandishing their cleverness at your expense. Norah Vincent - An interview with author
Firstly, a man brandishes a halberd (a six-foot pole with a wide, glinting blade at its tip) before whirling it around like a majorette might twirl a baton.
During their meeting in Caracas, ChÃ¡vez presented Putin with the so-called Order of the Liberator -- Venezuela's highest honor -- and provided the Russian leader a replica of a sword brandished by South American independence hero Simon BolÃvar, the namesake of Venezuela's socialist-inspired "Bolivarian Revolution. Nikolas Kozloff: Hugo ChÃ¡vez's Geopolitical Rivalry Reaching Soaring New Heights
I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public. Think Progress » Florida doctor tells Obama voters they are not welcome: ‘Seek urologic care elsewhere.’
[85] Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist. UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute (VIDEO) (UPDATES)
He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt. Times, Sunday Times
He brandished the red card to general disbelief. Times, Sunday Times
Another page shows a menacing masked figure brandishing a huge knife. The Sun
People cried out in pain as security guards brandishing flagstaffs as batons pushed back the rubbernecking crowd to allow the procession to pass.
They have already been used to record a confrontation with a man brandishing an iron bar. Times, Sunday Times
Museum visitors eager to walk with the dinosaurs can also see stegosaurus, which brandishes a long swinging tail studded with sharp spikes but has a brain the size of a walnut.
He is dressed in a Crombie full-length coat and is brandishing a sharpened steel comb.
The man, wearing only a belt from which a white handkerchief hung as a cache-sexe, his neck adorned with blue and red beads, was hopping about like a bird and brandishing a rusty machete.
They were brandishing pick handles. Times, Sunday Times
brandish a sword
He pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, which he tended to brandish at his employees, purportedly in jest.
Some brandished sticks, banners and fists, others chanted slogans.
One thug brandishing a shotgun kept watch while the other three, armed with a machete and an iron bar, rushed inside and grabbed hundreds of Rolex, Omega and Cartier watches.
The students were apprehended by police on Tuesday evening in London Road, where one of them was found to be brandishing a toy gun.
When the police brandished a post-mortem report which exonerated the cops from point-blank range killing, didn't we react by saying that the autopsy must have been fixed?
But to have a machete-wielding wild woman and a baseball bat-brandishing hero and to never once get a good look at their handiwork seems like a colossal gyp.
One of the robbers produced a commando style knife with an eight inch blade from a leather sheath, which he brandished towards the victim, ordering him to hand over his watch.
This was soon displaced by another stereotype, a bearded guerilla fighter brandishing an automatic weapon.
He again brandished his dagger, and said, "Thus die all enemies to Spain. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
‘Meanwhile,’ said Brush, brandishing his bottle of whiskey, ‘Anyone got a corkscrew?’
GOOGLE --- illegal immigration -- to find out their sinister intention, to just throw open the gates, ports and airline entrances to cheap labor, that also become the downfall of the European Union. the polling I have seen has been calculatedly -- ENGINEERED -- to get results, that they can brandish around, declaring the majority of Americans believe in a path to citizenship and open borders? It's not a health care system, it's a wealth care system
There's been one other card brandished in the last couple of minutes, but there appears to be confusion over who was on the receiving end.
They brandished war hammers, axes, broadswords, and spears of all shapes and sizes.
They saw what had happened, however, and beheld the barbarian set his foot on their companion, and brandish high his formidable weapon, the whistling sound of which made the old arch ring ominously, while he paused an instant, with his weapon upheaved, ere he gave the finishing blow to his enemy. Count Robert of Paris
Two masked men, one brandishing a sawn-off shotgun and the other a wrench, raided a village store.
She brandishes a stiletto knife, telling her that she will kill her if she does.
In among the swirls of blackness, she could see the bright flashes of weapons, the Shadowhunters brandishing the brilliant white daggers Tessa knew now were called seraph blades, each one brought into shimmering life by the name of an angel. Clockwork Angel
On all sides, ignoring him, barbarian mercenaries brandished their javelins, bows, pikes, two-edged swords.
A month later he was collared at work and questioned by a Special Branch officer brandishing a printout of the message.
Motorists were also scared as cars were being struck by the dangerous weapons brandished by the pair.
Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Typically, this is when the cat gets chased around the house and garden by a loony old poet brandishing a frying-pan.
And she draws a couple of intriguing parallels: for instance, between Robert Mapplethorpe and the Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo (both playing sensitive tough guys), or between the Italian Paolo Canevari (brandishing a model of the Colosseum) and the Egyptian Youssef Nafil (gazing at the Pyramids). NYT > Home Page
In her left hand she holds the scales of justice while in her right she brandishes her double-edged sword to punish the guilty.
She also said the teens rode on two bikes and forced her to pull over as one brandished the weapon.
Erase for a moment the images of Nigeria that may come to your mind — of burning garbage dumps in sprawling Lagos or unemployed young men brandishing jerry cans in the Niger Delta. One Nation, Under Gods
The whole crew appeared consecutively on deck, loading old muskets and pistols, brandishing cutlasses; a few were already busy heaving the cumbersome cannons from their storage unit.
And who can forget Jatayu in his film Sonar Kella brandishing a kukri?
Online hordes massed, brandishing rolling pins and placards, ready to tear down the bunting and upturn the ovens. The Sun
He called out to Nurhan in broken Dari, brandishing an army belt. KARA KUSH
We wound our way along pitch-dark corridors and up staircases, as animatronic models of Dracula reared up at us out of coffins without warning and a masked axeman from the horror movie Scream brandished his axe at us.
And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
He picked up a big stone and hurled it at me with his left hand, and then awaited me, brandishing his sword.
This was accompanied with that significant flourish with his pole which is called le moulinet, because the artist, holding it in the middle, brandishes the two ends in every direction like the sails of a windmill in motion. Quentin Durward
It was brandished by the anti-war movement to point up the discrepancy between our purported war aims and the grisly realities of napalmed villages and dead Vietnamese civilians.
The president - elect has brandished his reputation for non - partisanship and for a willingness to negotiate.
When they got me 'way out inter the mountings, where no huming but an Injin (ef they are humings) uver trod the sile, after wavin', brandisherin ', and gleameratin' thar tommyhocks over my knowledge-box for a long spell, and then thar butcher-knives in the same threatnin 'aspex, they helt a council over my case, and after much glomeration of talk they decided to head me up tight in a bar'l, and let me starve to death. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
Nattily dressed herself in a patterned suit and brandishing a white keytar, the singer wasn't wrong. Times, Sunday Times
There's something both hypocritically and blasphemously charming about a band whose right-hand man chews a lit cigarette on stage trust me, I've seen it, whose album art features the same bandmember brandishing an almost finished cancer stick and staring into a projected crucifix, and whose mohawked keyboard player quite literally jumps on his musical instrument while playing it. Judah Joseph: REVIEW: Foxy Shazam, The Church Of Rock And Roll
While you've been imitating Urea Thurman's "Pulp Fiction" scowl, and perfecting your Riot Grrrls look with smudged lipstick and ripped tights, an army of mascara-wearing, machete-brandishing female characters have in-filtrated the pages of comic books. You Thought Cat Woman Was Tough
Only it having been always accounted a very rational and allowed way, to judge what may be by what has been, you may remember that about forty years since this word popery served such as brandish it about the ears of the government now, as an effectual engine to pull down the monarchy to the ground, to destroy episcopacy root and branch, and to rob the church, and almost all honest men, to the last farthing. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Ever attentive to detail, Fanny arrived back brandishing a choice of two.
And if you can do all this, why am I not seeing YOUR name brandished around as a top rate director/actor? Robert Zemeckis to Mo-Cap the Beatles Into a New Yellow Submarine | /Film
I agree, but with banty-rooster senators like Oklahoma's Coburn "blaming it on the federal government" you have to wonder exactly what logic is being played out so consistently among these people so mobilized by their fear that they would risk jail to demonstrate by brandishing serious weaponry in the presence of the President of the United States. Good-Bye America!
The ostler and humpbacked postilion, one bearing a stable-lantern and a hay-fork, the other a rushlight and a broom, constituted the advanced guard; Mrs. Dods herself formed the centre, talking loud and brandishing a pair of tongs; while the two maids, like troops not to be much trusted after their recent defeat, followed, cowering in the rear. Saint Ronan's Well
A group of pre-pubescent children are playing hunt-and-seek with their big-eyed pet companions, brandishing makeshift spears and automatic rifles -- there's no danger here, for bodies are fungible, rebuilt in a minute by the assembler/disassembler gates in every room. Asimov's Science Fiction
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by wards, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool utterly trashed. Rhetorical Thirst (rev)
They brandish the ancient weapons of the Dani tribe that dominates this valley: bows and arrows, spears and crude knives.
Brandishing his trophies, the triumphant toreador tours the arena to the applause of the public, who hand him flowers and wine.
Suddenly, a tall and stately golden figure saw us and brandished his weapon menacingly.
She turned around, face streaked with grime and hair dangling limply from beneath the kerchief, brandishing the duster.
At his side was his No 2, Danny Alexander, who had accidentally brandished chunks of the speech to the cameras on Tuesday, and who yesterday paid penance by being Mr Osborne's water-wallah, making sure that his glass and carafe were topped up at all times. Spending review serves up sixpences in a pudding of manure and gravel
Well, when Diaz came out, the pair allegedly exchanged unpleasantries and then chased each other through the restaurant - Augusto, brandishing a pocket knife; Diaz, a straw dispenser.
His moment of glory came in a raid on a Kilburn flat when the tenant brandished a loaded gun in his face. The Sun
His first chance to brandish it comes unexpectedly soon. At the river Granicus, he spies the army of a local governor, forty thousand Persian troops.
All they can do is yell – or congregate on fairways brandishing their sickles.
But, rather untypically, after I had waved the golden carrot, I proceeded to brandish a very sharp stick. Dealings
‘Let's cut that,’ she tells him, looking at an image on the monitor showing a little boy, obviously ungentle, brandishing a toy machete.
One lady dressed in tight black leather and brandishing a whip, insisted on chasing Geoff and me around the dance floor.
Unhappily for titular lead Kevin James and his fellow cast members, I suspect the highest and lowest beasts on the food chain would review the very hindquarters off it, in a wild and vengeful feeding frenzy, fiercely brandishing every last claw, tusk, talon and tooth. Zookeeper is a strange animal - a kids' movie for none of the family
Throughout the show, hundreds of his admirers waited outside brandishing posters of support and chanting his name.
In the wake of James Meredith's plan to integrate the University of Mississippi, and the expectation of ensuing violence, one was brandishing a billy club, while the others looked on seemingly anticipating putting it to use.
He was brandishing a small knife in his left hand. Times, Sunday Times
Behind Chris's head, as he halted at the open window, a search-light turned all ways in the night, like a sword brandished among the stars. The Return of the Soldier
His heavy plate armour clanked as he waved his shield arm and brandished a huge spiked mace.
He brandished the moral force of government as his weapon.
Down in the valley Amalric had stiffened in his saddle when he saw that wild horseman curvetting and caracoling on the slopes while he brandished that blood-stained serpent-banner. The Bloody Crown Of Conan
Alex told me that Regina tried to crash the party and there was a rumor that she brandished a gun.
As if they were a single individual, the phalanx of Zxanxi cavaliers each drew two long, curved sabres from the sabres with their upper arms, and brandished the paired shields with their lower arms.
During a tour last year of army posts, she was photographed near the strife-torn border of Pakistan, the bespeckled lady brandishing an AK-47 and smiling. Congress' Strong Showing Keeps Patil in the Shadows
this was no rent-a-crowd chanting demands or brandishing placards
And finally, when he wound up his oration at fever heat, the men of the Whalla leaped to their feet shouting and brandishing their assegais. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna

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