Sentences with cudgel
cudg·el
C c - The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.
- Mrs. Clinton’s Senate tenure, however, also demonstrated the risks of overcompensation: Not wanting to give Republicans fodder to portray her as soft on defense, she authorized President Bush to use force in Iraq and handed Mr. Obama a political cudgel to use against her.
- In short, far from being another cudgel -wielding pundit, Moyers may be television's only moralist.
- The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
- I cudgeled my brains to recall her name.