Example sentences for: fists

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

  • The curtain falls on conservatives shaking their fists and vowing to get the NEA next time, like Snoopy cursing the Red Baron.

  • Saturday my study group (go ahead, laugh) met to discuss Doug Henwood's new book Wall Street (I missed this session because I hadn't read the book) and at lunchtime they went to a demonstration in Union Square, that was supposed to be of Latino sweatshop workers, and came away reeling: maybe fifteen people, mostly ancient sectarians and a few young ones, all full of the old rhetoric (a moment of silence followed by a "moment of rage" with raised fists but some people didn't know how to do it, memories of the black athletes' stand at the Mexico City Olympics having faded).

  • And now they turned to us, this sea of people, more than three hundred of them, shouting and screaming, men swinging fists and weapons, women swinging heavy purses, little children clawing with their fingernails at the faces of anyone they could reach.

  • The child may be found with clenched fists or frothy, blood-stained fluid issuing from the nose and mouth.

  • And when nothing's left, they use their fists and their feet.


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