Example sentences for: truncheon

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

  • Before your tour you get into your uniform, including your bonnet (helmet--but never the flat cap used on motorized patrol), your stick (truncheon, including the new American-style nightsticks), and your uniform jacket (not strictly a jargon term, but another case of police-public divide, in that the public nearly always call it a tunic , which is never used by the police themselves).

  • Henry Waxman, D-Calif.,--of derailing the bill in hopes of creating a campaign issue with which to truncheon the Republicans.

  • He only knows the politics of the truncheon, a quality that's tolerable in a backbencher but terrifying in a leader.

  • An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them.

  • That political truncheon gives you some idea of why Rupert Murdoch keeps the money-losing paper around.


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