Example Sentences

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The ultrawealthy are wielding their growing fortunes to glide through a rarefied realm unencumbered by the inconveniences of ordinary life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

By eliminating consumers’ choice, these large companies are wielding their power and absolving themselves of being held publicly accountable.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2024

In his new book, "The Courage to Be Free," he makes only a passing reference to "enforcing antitrust laws" against "large corporations that are wielding what is effectively public power."

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023

At the same time, U.S. detainees' friends and families are wielding public pressure on the administration.

From Reuters • Dec. 9, 2022

Lastly, in this picture, the men are wielding clubs that have evidently been borrowed from some gymnasium: this constitutes error Number 4, for seal-clubs are nothing like these.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon