cudgel
noun
a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
cudgels
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present tense formof cudgel (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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This scene emphasizes the film’s “savor every moment” theme that “We Live in Time” relentlessly cudgels viewers with for 108 endless minutes.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
Knowledge advances through the clash of ideas; the contrarian is often the herald of a new insight; labels such as “settled” and “consensus” are the cudgels of fundamentalists.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023
Her partner Lauren Winfield-Hill then took up the cudgels and when she was out with the score on 92, the stage was set for Heather Knight and Nat Sciver.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2022
Licenses do serve as legal cudgels to protect practitioners from competition.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2015
Watchmen were much in evidence, moving in pairs through the alleys in their gold cloaks and shirts of black ringmail, iron cudgels never far from their hands.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
