Example sentences for: wielding

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

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

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

  • 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 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.

  • Why have we "bundled" an umbrella with a subscription to Slate ? Many people--some of them wielding subpoenas--have asked us this question.


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