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How to use cudgel in a sentence

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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
The use of the concept of 'denialism' as a cudgel with which to beat anybody who questions global warming has become familiar.
She carried her weight like a swagger stick, and brandished it like a cudgel.
The muscular man carried a sturdy blackthorn cudgel in the field when supervising the emergency men.
Single stick involves using a cudgel or light stick in much the same way as the sabre.
He didn't actually call for Colless's head but he did embroider the story with enough venom for his followers to take up the cudgel.
Instead of a burglar with a bag and maybe a cudgel or shotgun, they saw a small mound under the bedclothes.
He changed from the cudgel to the rapier, and achieved a rare mastery at it.
The vicious movement had caused him to drop his makeshift cudgel in fear a moment before his life was taken.
The Government was wielding a rapier, not a cudgel, and wanted to concentrate on the clear and pressing dangers.
Just as noise trumps silence and rage trumps courtesy, the cudgel of lawsuits to silence or cower the opposition trumps free debate.
The insane, obscene, yawning difference between the pay of workers and bosses has long been used as a cudgel by labor groups.
The temple guards cudgel him even before he has been judged.
Posuelo is wrong: 6 months later a Funai empolyee is slayed down by a cudgel.
I sometimes think that we are trying to ask for secure, stable supplies of vitally important raw materials while wielding a cudgel.
I quite cheerfully take up the cudgel on behalf expatriated Britons living in Canada who are scattered fairly evenly across the country.
In the 28 cudgel heads that surround the temple you can see the process of transformation.
Why, steep as a cudgel, cramped, without legs, often without arms, did the poupard so for a long time remain beside the beautiful doll?
Gina Dominguez, the spokeswoman for Gov. Javier Duarte and his cudgel with the local press, resigned a mere three days later.
In 2010's election, they used Obamacare to cudgel Democratic opponents.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Do you think it would be amiss to re-enforce argument with a few good blows of a cudgel?
He applies the cudgel as vigorously to the priest's pate as to the Lolardes back.
I am about to fulfil a great act of justice by braining you with my cudgel like a wolf caught in a trap.
He lifted his nimble cudgel in the air and waved it conceitedly to and fro in time to the song that rose beyond the window.
Coupeau had a cudgel, which he called his ass's fan, and he fanned his old woman.
Why should I cudgel my brains with your new music when I have cudgeled them cruelly with the old?
She set her fishnet bag on the stump she vacated and provided herself with a cudgel before starting to investigate.
At each repetition he banged the wooden post of the summerhouse with his cudgel.
Hereupon the woman grew angry and struck at him with a cudgel.
The forehead of another skull shows an unhealed skull fracture, probably caused by a blow from a cudgel.
Down went the Dumb man, and away flew his cudgel from his hand as he fell.
We are all freemen, and I trow that a yeoman's cudgel is as good as a forester's knife.
With that assurance he took his cudgel from the corner of the room, and stalked out swiftly by the back door of the house into the night.
Leaping over his prostrate body, I seized the cudgel and finished the monster before he could regain his feet.
This other, which was evidently its mate, soon came toward us, bearing a mighty stone cudgel with which it evidently intended to brain me.
Thou shalt eat sweet venison and quaff the stoutest ale, and mine own good right-hand man shalt thou be, for never did I see such a cudgel player in all my life before.
They did, however, establish that all suffered from a violent end, with the forehead of one skull showing an unhealed fracture caused by a blow from a cudgel.
Discovering that I was a stranger, he lifted a thick cudgel that he carried with him, shook it threateningly, and called to me in his own language to stand back.
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