truncheon

How To Use truncheon In A Sentence

• These included repeated punchings, kickings, beatings with a baseball bat and truncheon, being urinated on and threatened with a syringe and blowtorch.
• One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points. Find Shannon « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
• Outside the wall, commandos beat truncheons against their shields and police dogs barked.
• One driver was even found with a police truncheon in his car.
• She carries a small wooden truncheon tucked up her sleeve in case her customers turn violent.
• Suddenly a policeman grabbed hold of me, smacked me a few times with his truncheon, and, with a colleague, threw me into a vehicle that the French picturesquely call a panier à salade (or, a basket for drying salad). In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
• More like President Kruger than Prince Albert – that's the best I can do for him; and I see him on a chair, in a black frock-coat, not so very high up either; I can manage a cloud or two for him to sit on; and then his hand trailing in the clouds holds a rod, a truncheon is it? Monday or Tuesday
• He bore in his hand what was called a truncheon, which was a sort of sceptre, very splendidly covered and adorned. Richard I Makers of History
• The "flics" look as menacing as ever, complete with body armour, truncheons and pistols, even though they are mostly dealing with shambolically intoxicated youths rather than would-be revolutionaries. France's young binge drinkers upset cafe society with their 'British boozing'
• It tossed a foot-long wooden truncheon onto a table beside a flintlock pistol and flopped down into a chair, snarling all the while.