Example sentences for: wielding

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

  • Perhaps, I thought, the army yielded power harshly while wielding a no-iron velvet fist?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • According to the critics, Wolf is somehow wielding all this undue power without earning her consulting fee.

  • United game, a section called the "Barra Brava" is jammed with Salvadorans and Bolivians wielding noisemakers.


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