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Example sentences for: wields

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He wields the thunderbolt, which is useful both as a weapon and as a way of extracting himself from the sticky situations he often finds himself in.
The chairman typically wields substantial power in setting the board's agenda and determining the outcome of votes.
Dowd laughs at the idea that Hugh Downs might have something to say about Proust and as usual wields her high school French--the column is called "Le Tout Swivet."
In the middle of the nearby Pond of Neptune (Vasca del Nettuno), the burly sea god wields his trident in petrified parody of one of the Boboli’s gardeners.
He is joined in his crime-fighting efforts by The Shovel (William H. Macy), who wields the same, and the effete English Blue Raja (Hank Azaria), whose talent is for operatically flinging wide his cape and hurling forks, most of which end up sticking out of his companions instead of his foes.