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Example sentences for: brandishing

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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?
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!"
Every night from the 1st to the 14th, in a highly dramatic display clearly designed to entertain, temple priests brandishing long poles with a flaming cedar ball at each end run along the front of the verandah, deliberately showering the large crowd below with burning embers.