Example sentences for: wielding

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

  • That heightened worry would become even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if the United States were hit, unprepared, by terrorists wielding either weapons of mass destruction or potent cyberweapons.

  • USAT reports that Britain's busiest freeway, the M6, was terrorized by a carload of five Austin Powers look-alikes wielding toy guns.

  • The mayor's abuse of power didn't bother those who had lived through far worse: "The people who came here in Daley's lifetime were accustomed to someone wielding power like a club, be it a czar, emperor, king, or rural sheriff," Royko noted.

  • At the start of the new millennium, Edinburgh is once again wielding true political power on behalf of its fellow countrymen: The “Scotland Act,” passed in November 1998, transferred control of domestic policy from London back to the Scots for the first time since 1707.

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


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