cudgel

How To Use cudgel In A Sentence

• Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues.
• I cudgelled my brains to find some possible explanation. Sex Dungeon for Sale!
• In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
• And as he continued to stare at her hat and think, the hurt he had received passed away, and he found himself cudgelling his brains for some way out of the muddle -- for some method by which she could remain on Berande. Chapter 13
• I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster, stadholder, or whatever else he may be, soundly. The Purcell Papers
• Not one man but two armed with cudgels have spotted us from the High Street and are sprinting toward the footpath. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• Maliseet, which open with the obtaining of a gold-dropping horse from an old man because of kindness, the loss of it at an inn at the bands of a rascally landlord, and the recovery of the animal through the generous use of a magic cudgel. Filipino Popular Tales
• Barack is running circles around an old cudgeller who can’t remember what he says. Aims of Democrats Reach Beyond the Oval Office - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
• `To start with, cudgel your brain for anything in your father's past that might have brought Karnes to him. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE