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Example sentences for: wielded

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There hasn't been any pretense, as there often is with these kinds of books, that the nominal author actually wielded the pen.
Nearly all of today's antibiotics are versions of weapons long wielded by microbes and fungi.
What makes Eleanor's growing love of power so fascinating--and troublesome--is that it had to be wielded with either extreme ingenuousness or extreme disingenuousness, and it's hard to figure out which.
In corporate staff meetings, the Wall Street Journal reports, employees everywhere pursue a game called Buzzword Bingo, in which players score by quietly taking note whenever a jargon term ("proactive," "incent," "interface") is wielded by their bosses.
They said the hijackers wielded knives and claimed to have a bomb.