Example Sentences

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He was trying to convince career prosecutors that they had been wielding their enormous power wrongly.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2022

He said he had been wielding the brush for six hours straight.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2011

It was apparent last week that the pledge was soon to come due, despite the determination with which the 82-year-old Generalissimo clung to the absolute power he had been wielding for nearly four decades.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her black gown was of some thin material, and just as the two little girls ran up on to the piazza, she dropped the large, black fan that she had been wielding.

From Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains by Brooks, Amy

The singer broke off his refrain, set down the twig-broom that he had been wielding and came toward him.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie