Example sentences for: fist

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

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  • To hold one's fist stiffly in the air in a gesture of ridiculous defiance while the bass amplifier thundered and the guitar shrieked and our man on tenor sax honked deliriously, and to see a barroom audience respond with shouts and their own idiotic fists in the beery air--that was to laugh.

  • Perhaps, I thought, the army yielded power harshly while wielding a no-iron velvet fist?

  • pistols leather riding gloves sold in the prison commissary, sometime worn during prison fist fights in order to scar an opponent's face.

  • Indonesia watchers at the IMF believe that this "civilian face/military fist" strategy can succeed in Indonesia so long as the military remains united.


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