How to Use billy club in a Sentence

billy club

noun

• Cops stood at the ready in the middle of 12th Street, billy clubs in hand, forcing the throng back on the sidewalk.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2018
• My weapon was a billy club—a ball of lead wrapped in leather with a nine-inch stem and a loop handle.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• These are not the guys with the billy club, chewing tobacco.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Lopez, who was armed with a gun while Sales had a knife and billy club, said he was punched by Sales, then opened fire, hitting him eight times.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
• Police went after them with billy clubs and fire hoses.
  — Michael Livingston, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• The story of voter suppression today is no longer the stuff of billy clubs and hoses that Ms. Abrams heard about as a child.
  — Elaina Plott, New York Times, 16 May 2020
• His mouth was agape and like, 'Now, wait a minute, wait a minute,' and this cop put a billy club under his chin and started marching him.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark had prodded her in the neck with a billy club and ordered her to vacate the premises.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2021
• The tooth decay, tangled hair, and body odor that can come from being denied access to basic resources is a crimson flag waved in front of a bull with a billy club.
  — Kim Kelly, Allure, 12 July 2019
• State troopers on horseback had galloped into a crowd of about 100 marchers, swinging billy clubs, firing tear gas and knocking over marchers.
  — Valerie Russ, Philly.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Violence had followed, with police descending on the protesters with billy clubs, mace and tear gas.
  — Michael Livingston, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• As the police, beating billy clubs on their shields, got closer, Wallace urged the protesters to not run even as police hit some of them with pepper spray and pulled many to the ground before zip-tying their wrists to make arrests.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 4 June 2020
• These features gave tear gas novelty value in a market where only the billy club and bullets were currently available.
  — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
• Outside, dozens of uniformed officers were waiting with billy clubs and paddy wagons.
  — Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
• Lewis, a civil-rights pioneer, preached nonviolence even after a state trooper cracked his skull with a billy club as Lewis and other protesters were crossing a bridge in Selma, Ala., in 1965.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
• Testimony at the inquest revealed that on the day of his murder, Sturgus had left his billy club, handcuffs, money and identification at home.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2020
• Other photos show smiling soldiers detaining a young man while yanking him by his curly hair and a group of officers with billy clubs beating a man who’s trying to protect himself with his hands.
  — Andalusia Knoll, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2018
• Brandishing a billy club and slingshot, Defendor tries to protect citizens from crime and thwart his arch-enemy, Captain Industry.
  — Charles Stockdale and John Harrington, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• Stella Perris, who was known as Greektown's schizophrenic street lady and would rant at passersby and carry a billy club for protection, sometimes took up residence at 1300 Beaubien.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2018
• An aggressive police response, complete with tear gas and billy clubs, led some protesters to retaliate with Molotov cocktails.
  — James C. Cobb, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• Police charged him with operating a vehicle while impaired, hit skip, failure to control, possession of dangerous drugs, carrying various weapons (knives and a billy club, drug paraphernalia (pot pipe), and open container.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 31 Dec. 2017

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