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Examples of nightstick in a Sentence
police officers fitted out with nightsticks and handcuffs
Recent Examples on the Web
Some officers wielded nightsticks to force demonstrators out of the parks.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
There were hundreds of police — nightsticks out, helmets on, shields down, carrying zip ties.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
Right Now Paul Buhle, then a history graduate student at UW-Madison and editor of New Left magazine Radical America, participated in the Dow sit-in and managed to avoid the blows of nightsticks.
—TIME, 10 May 2024
The interrogators used unauthorized dogs, humiliated inmates by forcing them to wear women's underwear, forced detainees into stress positions, and directed a military police sergeant to push and twist a nightstick into a detainee's arm, the investigations found.
—Matthew Barakat, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
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“Nightstick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nightstick. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
nightstick
noun
night·stick
-ˌstik
: a police officer's club
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