Sample Sentences for
brandish
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    The same hand that had brandished the sword now held a whip.  (source)
    brandished = waved or exhibited aggressively
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    And he was always brandishing an oversize plasma rifle the size of a snowmobile.  (source)
    brandishing = exhibiting aggressively
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    Shortly thereafter he propped his Minolta on an empty oil drum and took a snapshot of himself brandishing a yellow disposable razor and grinning at the camera, clean-shaven, with new patches cut from an army blanket stitched onto the knees of his filthy jeans.  (source)
    brandishing = waving or showing
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    A man stepped menacingly from the corner brandishing a long pole, and Kit winced as two sharp raps descended on each luckless head.  (source)
    brandishing = using aggressively
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    She tossed her new weapon up in the air, caught it again, brandished it, and urged the horse forward.  (source)
    brandished = waved or exhibited something aggressively
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    I won't brandish a weapon that I can't use.†  (source)
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    He brandishes the rifle in one hand and holds copies of two Communist newspapers in the other.†  (source)
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    No man the twain of you, 510 Lief or loth were he, might lay wyte to stay you Your sorrowful journey, when on the sea row'd ye; Then when the ocean-stream ye with your arms deck'd, Meted the mere-streets, there your hands brandish'd!†  (source)
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    I hate these pistol brandishers, Berrendo was thinking.†  (source)
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    Brandishing her sword, she jumped from the tree to attack.  (source)
    Brandishing = waving or exhibiting aggressively
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    She brandished it in the air, as if waving a gun.†  (source)
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    They brandish his notebook and tool case.†  (source)
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    (Emphatically, he brandishes the apple) The boob has been de-boobed†  (source)
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