Example sentences for: wielding

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

  • These are blessings and curses he wrote on charred or otherwise manipulated bits of paper and sent to friends, enemies, and a few public figures (Hitler, for one) in the late 1930s, in the wake of a disastrous trip he took to Ireland, wielding a cane that he believed was the staff of Saint Patrick, from which he returned in a straitjacket.

  • Greenspan suggested that the government should exercise more "humility" in wielding antitrust action because, as in the case of U.S.

  • But the NYT version seems to stress instead Serbian intransigence, reporting that "Holbrooke acknowledged he was 'skeptical' of a pledge made at the meeting that Karadzic would be stopped from wielding power behind the scenes in the Serb-held part of Bosnia" and saying the negotiations ended "without any major breakthrough."

  • It remains a place where Slate members can speak out, unmolested by meddlesome editors wielding software programs such as Semicolon Killer TM and Shut Up Already 98 for Windows TM and Antitrust AutoPurge Pro TM (which automatically erases any turn of phrase analyzed to agree with the Justice Department--about anything).

  • The Celts, those ancient invaders from the continent who managed to survive the Roman occupation and resist the Latin tongue, contributed one word-- whiskey -- having legal significance but were driven, along with their reverse-order speech, into the nooks and corners of the British Isles and France by the fierce Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, wielding their broadswords and brutish monosyllables.


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