How to Use nightstick in a Sentence

nightstick

noun

• The cop extends his nightstick & yells at the group to get back.
  — Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2018
• More than 200 cops wielding nightsticks had to break up the fight.
  — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
• He’s been known to jab people with his nightstick and push guests.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 28 May 2020
• One of the policemen was beating the man with a nightstick.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The police walk up, jab Lewis in the stomach with a nightstick, and then knock him down, along with a number of others.
  — Michael Atwood Mason, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2017
• Nichols is then pulled up by his shoulders and kicked in the face twice, then later is hit in the back with what appears to be a nightstick.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
• One man sued the police in 1975, alleging that Barboza split his forehead with a nightstick.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Klan leader Tom Metzger also was knocked to the ground by Oceanside police and had his nose bloodied by a nightstick.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Plainclothes security forces, some wielding nightsticks, drag one man off by the hair of his head.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• There is no better way to clear a corner in a tough neighborhood than the arrival of two highway cops who jump out of an unmarked car with nightsticks.
  — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Our only request was to kneel and pray, yet we were teargassed, trampled by horses, and beaten with nightsticks.
  — Southern Living, 7 Mar. 1950
• In the melee that followed, one veteran grabbed a policeman’s nightstick.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
• The arrests added images of swinging nightsticks and shoving matches with the police to the inaugural events.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
• The president and his fellow marchers climbed to the part of the bridge where, 58 years ago, peaceful protesters were beaten with nightsticks and tear gassed by a group of white police officers.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• In 12 hours of boot-stomps and nightsticks, Madrid did more to legitimize a call for independence than anything the Catalan politicians have done in recent years.
  — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• One of the male detainees kept through Sunday heard cops at the 20th District station complaining that their nightsticks were being impounded.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• In one cartoon image, a stick figure wearing riot gear uses a nightstick to beat another stick figure on the ground.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 18 June 2020
• TV journalist, shows officers using nightsticks and a hatchet to break the van’s windows and then deploying a high-power stream of water from the fire hose.
  — Joshua Sudock, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2017
• The injured officer struck the driver's side window with his baton, or nightstick, in order to stop Rizzo, according to the report.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 7 June 2017
• The officers retreated inside and stormed out again, moments later, a few using elbows and nightsticks to ring the pole where the California flag flew.
  — Johnny Miller, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
• With ratings like that, DeWalt wisely equipped the tool with an electronic clutch to prevent kickback and motor burnout, and an auxiliary handle with the stoutness of a nightstick.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2019
• In Moscow, the police clashed with protesters, turning a central square into a swirl of swinging nightsticks and shoving matches.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 May 2018
• Dramatic video shows officers using nightsticks to break the vehicle’s windows and attempting to force him out with a high-power stream of water from a fire hose.
  — Joshua Sudock, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
• The original features a weakly-looking man whose head is lowered from the pressure of a boot on the back of his neck, his face is smothered by a powder blue mask that’s being pulled back tightly by hands wielding a nightstick.
  — Sam Adams, The Denver Post, 17 July 2020
• George is in uniform as your friendly neighborhood cop complete with nightstick, dancing with his fellow outdoor fetishists.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 29 May 2018
• In the image of Trump rushing the police officers, the A.I. generator has fused the former president’s lower half with that of a cop, so Trump appears to be sporting a nightstick in a holster belt.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Seeing a cherubic, short-haired 13-year-old boy dressed as an L.A. cop, wielding a nightstick and talking about guns, is the kind of creepiness that beautifully serves a play about abuse of power and cultural stereotypes.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 27 May 2021
• There are photos of the young Walter Reuther, his skull bleeding from a policeman's nightstick, and buttons and posters, fading now from the indirect light, of candidates who came here when labor support could make or break their campaigns.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 28 June 2017
• In the first, Waters allegedly pressed his nightstick against the back of a man’s neck as another officer tried to handcuff him after responding to a domestic violence call.
  — Randall Chase, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• Arresting a man for selling loose and untaxed cigarettes, as Mr. Garner was suspected of doing that day in 2014, seems to many younger officers a concept as dated as a six-shooter and a nightstick.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024