Sentence examples for truncheon from inspiring English sources

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truncheon

noun

A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a brok off piece of a spear or lance.

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One of the most infamous photographs of the strike shows Sheffield WAPC's Lesley Boulton at the "battle of Orgreave", raising her hand as a police officer on horseback prepares to strike her with his truncheon.

"People are terrified of Right Sector and think that we will kill children, but we don't make a big show of it [in the east] and we wear different uniforms without recognisable insignia," he said while patrolling in central Kiev with a gas mask and a rubber truncheon.

I don't want to get hit in the face with a truncheon.

A fourth strikes her with his truncheon.

I'll never forget one of my old bosses damning "Ulysses" as the phallogocentric truncheon of paternal oppression, whatever that means.

But Bihar's problems cannot be solved by the truncheon alone.

"After the coup I was forced to eat my own shit and repeatedly raped with a truncheon," he recalls.

More welfare spending, perhaps, is to keep unhappy people off the streets.In this section A million rupees now The truncheon budget Take five Abandon hope?

From 1963, when the Justice Department began to watch him, the press came into Selma too, blazing their bright lights into his eyes; and the camera would make him out a liar, he said, by showing him with his truncheon raised over blacks when he had never touched them.

Mr Singh, again, is bound to be embroiled.In this section A million rupees now The truncheon budget Take five Abandon hope?

But Ms Gillard will achieve her vow to win the debate only with a grubby political fight.In this section A million rupees now The truncheon budget Take five Abandon hope?

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