Sample Sentences forwield (editor-reviewed)
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She wields little authority, but much influence in the company.wields = has
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I will not take the Ring to wield it. (source)wield = use its power
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That made me think of Phoebe and the lunatic, and I said, "If I were walking in Phoebe's moccasins, I would have to believe in a lunatic and an axe-wielding Mrs. Cadaver to explain my mother's disappearance." (source)wielding = holding
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Rosa touched one and picked it up, but she did not wield it.† (source)
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HARRY/VOLDEMORT: Together, the power we could wield.† (source)
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A good sharp one, and a bold man to wield it.† (source)
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Life is not something you wield, you know?† (source)
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One of the stun-gun wielding dropcops climbed through the hole first.† (source)
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Although they were almost the same age, Ezinma wielded a strong influence over her half-sister.† (source)
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Because power had been passed in some way that none of them knew but all understood, and my mother was locked root and rind to the holder and wielder of that power.† (source)
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He wields 10,000 hands of anger, greed, and revenge.† (source)
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They lumbered and clanged, and their brake tanks panted in the slushy brown of a winter afternoon or the bare stone brown of a summer's, salted with ash, smoke, and prairie dust, with long stops at the clinics to let off clumpers, cripples, hunchbacks, brace-legs, crutch-wielders, tooth and eye sufferers, and all the rest.† (source)
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When King Arthur beheld that piteous sight he had great compassion on them, so that his heart bled for sorrow, and hailed him, saying in this wise: He that all the world wieldeth give thee short life and shameful death; and the devil have thy soul; why hast thou murdered these young innocent children, and murdered this duchess?† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She wieldeth" in older English, today we say "She wields."
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I tried for a smile, though I wasn't sure how I'd managed to wield elf magic.† (source)
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Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.† (source)
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They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.† (source)
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