brandish in the PONS Dictionary

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Thanks to the miracle of digital, they're now brandishing walkie-talkies...
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If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs; if they are satisfied, they brandish their spears.
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They accordingly did so; and in a numerous body they poured down, covered by wreaths, and brandishing their thyrsi instead of spears.
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Legislative appointment was brandished as a possibility in the 2000 election.
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Thirty or forty people at a time were told to leave their possessions and were escorted through a narrow passageway lined with soldiers brandishing clubs.
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He wore an elaborate feathered headdress and brandished a round shield and a turquoise snake.
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Upon the announcement of the campaign and the vote, most media outlets quickly took up the cause, brandishing stirring rhetoric and powerful images.
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A man brandishing a white net curtain from one of the windows waved him down.
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Then he brandished an iron pipe that he had broken off of a water pipeline and threatened the guards with it.
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The crest above the shield was an armoured arm brandishing a scimitar.
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