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Example sentences for: brandishing

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(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?
The bus was surrounded by a mob that had lynching on its mind until an undercover policeman got off the bus brandishing his pistol.
He’s brandishing the royal French fleur-de-lys flag that inspired the Québec provincial flag of today.
Libération carried a cartoon of a fierce-looking Albright brandishing a fly swatter and saying, "Make peace or shit!"
When, in 1835, a would-be assassin pointed his pistol at Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious president simply charged at the assailant, brandishing his cane.