How to Use truncheon in a Sentence

truncheon

noun

• Officers stood in a row, armed with truncheons and shields.
  — Amie Tsang, Alan Wong and Michael Forsythe, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2016
• Some were hung on the wall and beaten with electrified truncheons.
  — David Stavrou, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Soon after the largest march, on June 15, the police and the Basij militia came out in force, spraying tear gas and beating people with truncheons.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Some donned goggles to guard against pepper spray and helmets to protect from truncheons.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2019
• Student Sasha Vilks showed a reporter his legs and his back deeply bruised from truncheon blows, but told his weeping mother not to look.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
• Russian police beat some protesters to the ground with wide truncheon swings while others tried to push the police away.
  — Jim Heintz, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2019
• There were pitched battles against the forces de l’ordre that ended with the demonstrators bloodied and driven back under a wave of truncheons.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Just the day before, Macedonian security forces had used shields and truncheons to beat back hundreds of refugees, and then strung barbed wire across the border.
  — Ali Arkady, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Just the day before, Macedonian security forces had used shields and truncheons to beat back hundreds of refugees, and then strung barbed wire across the border.
  — Ali Arkady, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• Visitors are asked to pick up a truncheon (a stick carried as a weapon by police officers) to learn what happened next.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2021
• Visitors are asked to pick up a truncheon (a thick stick carried as a weapon by police officers) to learn what happened next.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
• Seconds later, a state trooper brought a truncheon down on Lewis, fracturing his skull.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• The baton that Reagan passed to a new generation became a truncheon in Gingrich’s hands.
  — Christopher Buckley, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• But the fact that so many Iranians in so many different places are willing to brave the bullets and the truncheons of their oppressors speaks volumes about their frustration and anger at the state of their country.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 7 Jan. 2018
• National forces in riot gear began charging into schools as soon as the polls opened, clearing crowds with truncheons and rubber bullets.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
• Colleagues in riot gear and on horseback, plus truncheon-wielding National Guard units, lined nearby roads.
  — James Ellingworth, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• The protesters were facing off against countless blue-helmeted Alabama state troops armed with whips and truncheons.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2017
• Video footage showed truncheon-wielding riot officers squirting pepper spray at a man in a group of journalists and ganging up to beat and manhandle him.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• The black truncheon attached to their ears became hitched to its associated discourtesy.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• Television cameras and social media accounts showed officers stomping on voters with their boots, pounding them with truncheons and dragging them out of polling places.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
• Soon after the polls opened, Spanish riot police smashed into the voting centers, their raids caught on mobile phone cameras that showed them whipping ordinary citizens with rubber truncheons and dragging them away by their hair.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2017
• Not far from where those spokesmen congregate is another image, that of thousands of Afghans running a chaotic gantlet of dangers, including truncheon-wielding Taliban fighters, to make their way to the airport and escape the country.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• Each week this past month, videos filtered out on social media of Russian police battering unarmed and peaceful demonstrators with truncheons — no matter the scenes being ignored on Russian state television.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• The Spanish police cracked down on parts of Catalonia in an attempt to halt an independence referendum on Oct. 1, wielding truncheons, firing rubber bullets and barring polling stations.
  — Laure Fourquet, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• After escorting women in medieval dresses into a tent, a gaggle of knights braced in an impromptu phalanx, their wooden shields forming a wall, as riot police armed with truncheons pushed forward against opposition protesters.
  — Andrew Roth, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• Officers stood in a row, armed with truncheons and shields.
  — Amie Tsang, Alan Wong and Michael Forsythe, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2016
• Some were hung on the wall and beaten with electrified truncheons.
  — David Stavrou, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Soon after the largest march, on June 15, the police and the Basij militia came out in force, spraying tear gas and beating people with truncheons.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Some donned goggles to guard against pepper spray and helmets to protect from truncheons.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2019
• Student Sasha Vilks showed a reporter his legs and his back deeply bruised from truncheon blows, but told his weeping mother not to look.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020

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