Examples of brownshirt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some elements of the Wolfe collection have already been sold, but the remaining items up for auction Saturday include Hitler’s uniform visor hat, a brownshirt uniform and several medals, including an Iron Cross, Gottlieb said. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019 Words, as the historian Thucydides warned 2,400 years ago, habitually change their meanings to reflect passing political orthodoxy — and thugs, commissars, and brownshirts oversee the charade. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017 At the weekend march, the infamous hoods and robes of Klan rallies or brownshirts of neo-Nazis were hard to find, with many dressing like Mr. LaPorte. — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017 This is a particularly strange move for someone said to be a modern brownshirt/fascist/crypto-Nazi. — William Mcgurn, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2017 To the top left, a cake version of every brownshirt’s favorite space ship, Serenity, followed by a Yellow Submarine that is just far too beautiful to eat. — John Brownlee, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2007 Security forces and brownshirts, working together to crush dissent with brutal violence. — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 17 May 2017

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