Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knobkerrie
Noun
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Self-defense items such as mace, kitty claws, or brass knuckles will be detected and surely require additional screening.—
Jillian Dara,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026 -
With 30 points of articulation, plus his signature mace, blaster, and interchangeable hands, it’s built for dynamic posing and display.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Consider his Goodworth Sofa, inspired by classic English house cane furniture and reinterpreted in a cleaner, more relaxed way.—
Hannah Coates,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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Her cane held in her right hand, on her left foot, a cast.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Running against McCombie from the right is 49-year-old retired police officer Victoria Onorato of Byron, who was not responsive to us and uses McCombie’s willingness to cross the aisle in Springfield as a cudgel.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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Voices on the British Right have used the scandal as a cudgel against Labour and Starmer in particular.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the Celebrating Gustavo shows are sure to be highlights before Dudamel packs his baton and heads off to his new post as the head of the New York Philharmonic.—
Peter Larsen,
Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
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With equal panache, and without cutting away, the narrative focus is handed like a baton in a relay race to the arriving Mayor Dumont (Josse De Pauw) and his daughter and press attaché Marie (Violet Braeckman).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Peaceful protest marches were met with truncheons and bullets, and within two days, hundreds of people lay dead — at the hands of their own military.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Not since the segregationist Southern states deployed dogs, fire hoses and nightsticks against civil rights activists in the early 1960s has any government entity in the U.S. wielded force against its own citizens to this extent.—
Ronald Brownstein,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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He was also accused of stabbing the boy with a knife, hitting him with a nightstick and slamming his head into a vehicle.—
Dale Denwalt,
Oklahoman,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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With the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other instruments of force as his bludgeon, Khamenei has chosen bloodshed over conciliation.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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And almost certainly cross $1 billion globally, with $2 billy still in its sights.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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Since then, billy woods has dropped Golliwog, while Elucid did the solo album Revelator.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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