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  • He rolled up his sleeves, brandished his wand, and bellowed, "Peskipiksi Pesternomi!"  (source)
    brandished = waved
  • The same hand that had brandished the sword now held a whip.  (source)
    brandished = waved or exhibited aggressively
  • 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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  • Brandishing her sword, she jumped from the tree to attack.  (source)
    Brandishing = waving or exhibiting aggressively
  • 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
  • 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)
    brandish'd = waved something or exhibited it aggressively
  • They brandish his notebook and tool case.†  (source)
  • He brandishes the rifle in one hand and holds copies of two Communist newspapers in the other.†  (source)
    brandishes = waves something or exhibits it aggressively
  • I hate these pistol brandishers, Berrendo was thinking.†  (source)
    brandishers = people who wave something or exhibit it aggressively
  • "Now I have this," I said, brandishing the ten-pound note.  (source)
    brandishing = waving
  • She brandished it in the air, as if waving a gun.†  (source)
    brandished = waved or exhibited aggressively
  • Two shining spears are brandish'd in his hands; Thus arm'd, he animates his drooping bands, Revives their ardour, turns their steps from flight, And wakes anew the dying flames of fight.†  (source)
    brandish'd = waved something or exhibited it aggressively
  • He pressed ahead, continuing to brandish the sword back and forth wildly.†  (source)
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