Example sentences for: brandished

How can you use “brandished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To say that these laws were violated is merely to say that the massacre happened, i.e., that two kids walked into a school and brandished, aimed, and discharged firearms in a manner calculated to alarm people, endanger the safety of others, and further a crime of violence.

  • (For rush to judgment, click .) And while she is literally correct that flags were waved and technically accurate that torches were not brandished, isn't there a deeper brandishing, a rich symbolic brandishing?

  • A year ago she wore an orange jumpsuit and brandished a torch, now she wears a look of remorse.

  • A year ago she wore an orange jumpsuit and brandished a torch; now she wears a look of remorse.


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