Sentence examples for like a truncheon from inspiring English sources

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But the tool was so packed with electronics that it looked and felt like a truncheon.

A desperation took hold of us all my stepfather, wielding a rolled-up copy of Time Out like a truncheon, began to suggest truly depraved activities.

One is how some Muslims seem to have become addicted to the "offensive" label and wield their hurt feelings like a truncheon with which to hit other people over the head.

When his The Big Night Down the Drain, a lumpish image of a dwarf-like man unmistakably resembling Hitler who holds his oversized penis in front of him like a truncheon, was confiscated from his Berlin gallery in 1963, he says it "drove my family to the brink of ruin".

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Take the moment the aforementioned dildo is being inserted into Barry Frobisher's rear end, "like trying to force a truncheon into a closed sea anemone".

The greatest jolt, at exactly the wrong moment for Mr. Saakashvili, came with the release of the video clips, which showed prison guards sodomizing prisoners with objects like a broom and a truncheon.

A pathologist report into Peach's death said his broken skull was not likely to have been caused by a truncheon.

Munir, a 15-year-old from Herat, Afghanistan, described being pinned down by Macedonian police a week ago and beaten with a truncheon so ferociously they broke his arm.

(It sounded like somebody beating a piece of sheet metal with a truncheon).

Like telling people what to do? Hi, mum! Enjoy the nice, comforting feel of a truncheon's weight straining gently at your lower arm muscles?

A truncheon round the head.

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