How to Use mace in a Sentence

mace

1 of 2 noun

• The guard had the man secured and had a can of mace in his hand.
  — cleveland, 30 July 2021
• Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
• Weapons like a spiky mace are used against the creatures, but there’s no blood or gore.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Danielson turned toward the shouts and lifted the can of bear mace.
  — Bryan Denson, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2020
• What kind of person would spray homeless people with bear mace?
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• More officers were called in and had to use mace and smoke to disperse the crowds.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2021
• The seeds and mace of the nutmeg plant, which is known to contain myristicin.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• In return, agents sprayed mace, tear gas and threw smoke bombs at protesters.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
• Bear mace is far more pressurized and can have a spray range of up to 40 feet.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• Make your workout more medieval with this steel mace from Onnit.
  — Mark Stock and Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
• Carter said police used mace to break up the fight, and one person was arrested.
  — Dezimey Kum, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• Woods quickly surrendered, asking the men not to spray him with mace.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 29 Nov. 2021
• Dan shouts and screams at the tax collector, who sprays mace or pepper spray in Dan’s face.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• The two girls and the mother argued, and the older girl spayed the younger girl with mace or pepper spray.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2021
• These maces, which date back to the 17th century, are made of silver gilt over oak.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2023
• Stir in the crabmeat and roe (or yolk); add pepper and mace, and cook 20 minutes.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• Put a quarter teaspoon of butter inside each and sprinkle with the mace.
  — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
• In a small bowl, whisk together the cinnamon, nutmeg and mace.
  — Bronwen Wyatt, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
• Still sporting wavy chestnut hair, the face of a 20-something was likely bashed by a mace.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
• Here’s how to use nutmeg and mace to their full potential, from buying to using to storing.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 13 Nov. 2022
• The regalia includes swords, maces, rings, an orb, sceptres, an ampulla for the holy oil and, of course, the crowns.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2023
• Video from the scene shows people shouting, swearing, throwing drinks and spraying mace and pepper spray.
  — oregonlive, 22 May 2021
• The trucks belched through the city streets, past gauntlets of antiracist protesters and left-wing groups, blitzing them with pellets and mace.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
• Loki responds by aiming his mace to obliterate the old man, ready to snuff out his act of defiance.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
• The main difference was that the dark cake called for brown sugar and spices—allspice and mace—while the lighter cake had no spices and used white sugar.
  — Cassandra King, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2023
• Feldman’s first day on set involved spraying Lawrence in the face with mace and then dousing her with a high-speed garden hose.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• This spice blend contains cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, mace, cloves, anise and allspice, and it is called lebkuchengewürz.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
• Some of the females were armed with mace and knives, WBNS reports.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 15 May 2022
• In the melee, counterprotesters could be seen spraying mace while members of the anti-vaccine rally screamed death threats.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2021
• In group chats and private messages, the defendants discussed acquiring bear spray and mace.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025

mace

2 of 2 verb

• She maced the man who attacked her.
• Agents used batons and mace on demonstrators.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• One neighbor who went to Fuentes’ door to ask about the remark told police she was maced by the race-baiting provocateur.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
• An arriving learned a Mentor man attempted to mace an employee.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2021
• At any moment, we could be corralled in a mass detention sweep, bound and raped and maced and mauled for committing the crime of simply existing on our land.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
• Eight tenants have accused her of bear-macing residents, physical violence, threatening to call immigration officials and failing to maintain basic sanitary conditions.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• Video footage of the incident obtained by KQED appears to show the women gesticulating and shouting at the correctional staff before the officers form a line and deploy pepper spray and mace grenades at the group.
  — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• At the same time, ICE and other DHS agents have been documented having fired pellets at a protesting pastor in Chicago, throwing a migrant woman to the floor of a New York City immigration court and having maced a woman in Portland, Oregon.
  — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• Dozens of agents swarmed the area along with a military vehicle, Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, told USA TODAY, saying agents used batons and mace on demonstrators.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025