Sentence examples for nightstick from inspiring English sources
noun
A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security people, for use in self-defense. Often shortened to stick.
The nightstick carried by police officers was originally made of wood, but most now are made of composite materials.
Known as a nightstick or billy club, it ranges in length from 12 to 36 inches (30 to 90 cm).
The amount of equipment carried by uniformed officers has grown considerably since the 1950s, when it basically consisted of a handgun in a holster, handcuffs, and a nightstick.
The Lunatic Fringe attacked everyone with a nightstick before signing the contract to make his match official at the Elimination Chamber this weekend.
Best are Morris's "guns": detritus reliefs that distantly assume pistol and rifle shapes with very free, infectious cadenzas of wood scraps, shoe parts, fabric, rope, nails, plastic, and, say, a brush, a clothespin, a whistle, a paint tube, or a toy nightstick.
Heaney writes that what he loves about Walcott's poems is "the writerly fearlessness... the readiness to lift the baton and tune the big orchestra — and there's always just that hint of a possibility that if things get out of hand the baton could turn into a nightstick".
The first nightstick came down on Lewis's skull.
So did the police presence; by 9pm there were around 200 cops camouflage-clad SWAT, cops camouflage-clad in black helmetSWATd riot gear, state troopers in old-scorrectionsr blues with officersol wooden ninhtsticks—lined up in formation in front of the prison, across the street from the protesters.
Police continue to employ narrow clubs known as truncheons, nightsticks, or billies in controlling prisoners and crowds.
And yes, it could have been powerful to watch riot police in their trademark blue fatigues bringing down a shower of nightsticks on singing protesters.
The troopers wore gas masks and carried nightsticks; Clark's men were armed with clubs, whips, and cattle prods.
