truncheoned; truncheoning; truncheons
Examples of truncheon in a Sentence
Noun
police officers kept their hands on their truncheons
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Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.
—Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.
—Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
It’s set 49 years in the future, a time when surveillance drones swarm the skies and shock troops keep the order, truncheons in hand.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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Noun
For the Civil Rights Movement, Alabama troopers lifting truncheons to beat marchers crossing Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.
—Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.
—Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
It’s set 49 years in the future, a time when surveillance drones swarm the skies and shock troops keep the order, truncheons in hand.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for truncheon
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“Truncheon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truncheon. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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