How to Use nunchuck in a Sentence

nunchuck

noun

• To his advantage, the nunchucks flew out of his hands and hit an audience member.
  — Ella Gonzales may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
• His empathy doesn’t last—the end of the film swings back to nunchuck heroics—but the critters retain an elegiac aura.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
• One is a years-long effort to expand Second Amendment rights to weapons that are not firearms, such as nunchucks, stun guns and batons.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Garcia followed him outside with a pair of nunchucks, and the two started brawling, Baytown police said in a release.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2018
• But researchers have now shown a robot how to flip nunchucks to demonstrate an intuitive approach for teaching complex manual tasks.
  — Edd Gent, Science | AAAS, 25 Sep. 2017
• As for Rhonda’s interior, it was equipped with a refrigerator, couch and nunchucks.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Officers also found various weapons inside, including samurai swords, nunchucks and knives.
  — Fox News, 12 Apr. 2020
• Most candles extinguished by nunchucks in one minute Xie Desheng snuffed out 52 open flames with nothing but ninja-like precision.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 8 Sep. 2019
• Requests included replacing the shift knob with a Nintendo Wii nunchuck controller (Atkin obliged).
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
• JHud enforces the law with two sets of nunchucks, Miley uses a series of pirouette moves to take down a gang and Blake and Adam deliver some hits.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
• Second only to Lynskey in luminescence in this movie is Wood, whose Tony named his dog Kevin and specializes in nunchucks and ninja stars.
  — EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• Garcia allegedly hit Liepold with the nunchucks, and Liepold responded by stabbing Garcia in the back of the head, arm and hand, according to police.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2018
• Many audiences may recognize him best as the shirtless, nunchuck-wielding man in the coming-of-age classic Ghost World (2001).
  — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
• What follows is the film’s funniest scene, as the suddenly spry Amy, in an attempt to save her friends, refashions sausages into nunchucks and sandwich tinfoil into explosives.
  — Teo Bugbee, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Fortunately, our main man is decked out in a kevlar suit plus has an endless supply of ammunition, a penchant for head shots (for real, no one’s as obsessed with deadly follow-through) and a decent handle on nunchucks.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• Many audiences may recognize him best as the shirtless, nunchuck-wielding oddball in the coming-of-age classic Ghost World (2001).
  — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
• Oliver began by making fun of Brnovich’s infamous nunchuck videos, which to a comedian is like shooting fish in a barrel, something Oliver acknowledged.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2022
• And neither is the notion that Beyoncé's main inspiration for Lemonade was a nunchucks-wielding Cara Delevingne.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2017
• That vision comes down to mixing together worlds, with nods to privilege (a silver spoon jutting out from a model’s mouth) or sometimes stereotypical odes to Asian culture (a denim and suede purse made out of nunchucks).
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 June 2018
• The incident prompted the Denver Sheriff Department to ban the use of specialized nunchucks for law enforcement officers.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 10 June 2024
• Also declared unconstitutional have been New York State’s ban on nunchucks and Connecticut’s ban on transporting a police baton when moving it to a new home.
  — David B. Kopel, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• The program’s first three sketches prominently featured humanoid robots, including a lengthy martial arts demonstration where over a dozen Unitree humanoids performed sophisticated fight sequences waving swords, poles and nunchucks in close proximity to human children performers.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026