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Example sentences for: brandishing

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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.
The bus was surrounded by a mob that had lynching on its mind until an undercover policeman got off the bus brandishing his pistol.
It shelters Benvenuto Cellini’s bronze masterpiece, Perseus (replaced by a copy in 1998 while undergoing restoration in the Uffizi) brandishing the severed head of Medusa.
(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?