truncheons
- present tense form of truncheon (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Children giggle and run as kilikis with soft foam truncheons bop them if they get too close.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
He said policemen whose job was to control the crowds in front of the emergency department only carried truncheons.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023
"Unjustified arrests, unexplained delays, police cordons, masks and truncheons," nationalist lawmaker and former soccer executive Igor Lebedev commented on Twitter, describing last month's Russian Cup final in Samara.
From Fox News • Jun. 14, 2019
Their wages shrivelled by inflation post-World War One, police officers in the Massachusetts city got organised and in 1919 downed their truncheons.
From BBC • May 6, 2018
Permitted by the more peaceable to depart, the policeman scuttled downstairs as fast as he could, and, not being recognised in his disguise, was instantly knocked down by his friends' prompt truncheons.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
