Example sentences for: wielded

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

  • And while it's certainly true that people in their late '20s and early '30s--at least in cities, where those people are less likely to have families--have a lot of disposable income, it can't compare, in absolute terms, to that still wielded by the baby boomers.

  • 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.

  • Because OIPR had ultimate authority to decide what was presented to the FISA Court, it wielded extraordinary power in the FISA process.

  • The goal is to find an incriminating datum that will leave a permanent stain on the target's reputation, make his defenders look like craven apologists, and give the general public a ready-made judgment that can be wielded without too much reading or thought.

  • 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.


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