How to Use wield in a Sentence

wield

verb

• The man was wielding a gun.
• Can he wield a hammer?
• He wields a great deal of influence over his students.
• The United States can—and must—wield its power for good.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• One man was seen on video wielding a folding chair to use against the boaters.
  — Remy Tumin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• To wield the gavel was his life’s whole grail and summit.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2023
• And now Google is trying to wield EU law against Apple.
  — David Meyer, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
• In the video, the rapper dances with both the devil and a Grim Reaper-esque Death figure, who wields a scythe.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2023
• Once again the ostensible premise is power — its use, abuse and the fight over who gets to wield it.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
• No shots have been fired, and Connell said officers have not seen the man wielding a weapon.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• Second, the person who would have been wielding the bat likely would have dropped it, and there was no such weapon found at the scene.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Each of the leaders of these two Americas wields power in his own way.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Carl is the host of a public-television how-to show, instructing viewers on the ins and outs of wielding a brush.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• At the start of the film, Thor is exiled on Earth and deemed unworthy to wield his hammer, which has crashed into the desert in New Mexico.
  — Wired, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
• But for the most part, Santa was wielded as a threatening figure.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Earnest Americans are the ones who wield the glue guns in this grand institution.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
• Bat-like wings are spread wide, matching outstretched arms that wield a pointed spear and shield, backed by rolling waves of fire lighting up the darkness.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• So far, Section Three has been wielded in a handful of lawsuits, with mixed results.
  — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• If smaller and smaller groups of people can wield state-like power, that is essentially the risk of the coming wave.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
• Markey has chosen to wield a bigger platform than the one Musk owns to compel answers from Musk on the fake account fiasco of the past week.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2022
• There was no projector here and no stage, only one weak microphone that forced the person wielding it to stand to be heard.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 Mar. 2023
• The phrase describes the subtle way the EU wields its influence: by setting new regulatory standards that nudge the rest of the world to keep pace.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The tools that the young can wield, together with knowledge and wisdom, are formidable.
  — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
• All that matters is guns—getting them, keeping them, and inevitably wielding them.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2023
• Chita Rivera, the chorus dancer who became a bona fide Broadway star, wielded her body with divine grace.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Those who hold the CCM cards are wielding conservatives’ soft power.
  — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• Next weekend: Cook County judges wield real power to limit delays, but not all of them use it.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• The Amazons were a tribe of warrior women who wielded the double-headed labrys axe in Ancient Greece.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 13 Dec. 2023
• And that can be a very dangerous thing for megalomaniacs to wield.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
• To say that that is a separate entity from the person wielding, programming, putting that AI to use, then we’re doomed.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 15 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024