Sentence examples for brandishing from inspiring English sources

With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs.

The Scottish Police Federation said officers had been responding to a call about a man brandishing a knife.

At the start of the rebellion he was videoed brandishing a machine gun, however, and pledging to kill his father's enemies.

About 500 protesters, most of them African-American, lined up on the other side of the road to the entrance of the prison which was barricaded by a cordon of Swat police dressed in full riot gear and brandishing tear gas rifles.

Suddenly fresh faced 40 year olds are jumping onto the grey bandwagon, eagerly brandishing their mature credentials.

British youngsters post pictures of themselves in the desert or in hotel courtyards in Syria, in shades, brandishing Kalashnikovs and inviting friends to join them.

Obviously, that's a problem for your neighbor, whose kid is now brandishing an acceptance letter from an Ivy League institution.

Russian CCTV footage shows a restaurant being raided by balaclava clad men brandishing weapons.

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in support, many of them brandishing sunflowers (see picture): a rebuke to the murkiness of cross-strait negotiations.

Protesters had gathered outside the front door, chanting and brandishing placards accusing UKIP of bigotry.

Last month hundreds of umbrella-brandishing postmasters and postmistresses gathered outside 10 Downing Street to present a petition signed by more than 4m people that called on the government to save post offices.