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Example sentences for: wielded

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The Washington Post , New York Times and Los Angeles Times lead with the early returns from Russia's parliamentary elections, surprising because they show that centrist and reform parties, including a brand-new Kremlin-based bloc, the Unity party, have made gains that significantly cut into the power long wielded in the legislature by the communists.
For instance, the NYT reports that when Clinton suggested that the grand jurors themselves wielded a definition of sex, that like his, required sexual intercourse, some of the jurors sent back word that no, they wanted him to address more specifically what he and Lewinsky did, but Clinton politely refused.
Morrison has wielded so effortlessly in the past."
They said the hijackers wielded knives and claimed to have a bomb.
In the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola version of Bram Stoker's Dracula , Dracula dies when he is impaled by a bowie knife wielded by an improbable London-based cowboy.