Example sentences for: brandishing

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

  • Libération carried a cartoon of a fierce-looking Albright brandishing a fly swatter and saying, "Make peace or shit!"

  • 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.

  • When, in 1835, a would-be assassin pointed his pistol at Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious president simply charged at the assailant, brandishing his cane.

  • (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.


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