Cudgel in a sentence

It’s because, at least in part, it’s become a cudgel in the culture war that’s driving so much of our politics right now,” Ranallo-Benavidez said.

Road resurfacing will be carried out between Cudgel Street at Yanco and McQuillan Road at Leeton to provide a smoother, safer and stronger road surface.

The history of these regulations go back to the 19th century, and reflect a long tradition of employers using the cudgel of continued employment to try and affect or influence their employees’ political views.

But from the beginning of her political career, Harris has seen her connection with Brown as a liability — a cudgel that opponents and, at worst, a tired, sexist trope used to question the legitimacy of her ascendant career.

It flattens more than it layers on, and it is certainly damaging to progressive movements when identity is wielded as a cudgel or a gotcha.

President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats.

The idea that all anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism is a nonsensical cudgel used to shut down criticism of the state of Israel.

Both sides have made their opponents’ willingness to face questions a cudgel.

Congressional Republicans have turned the leftwing proposal for a “Green New Deal” into a cudgel they’ve consistently used to whack Democrats for fiscal irresponsibility.

Conservatives have used Hunter Biden’s legal cloud as a cudgel against the former vice president and have raised concerns that Joe Biden or his yet-to-be-named attorney general could shut down probes into his son shortly after taking office in January.

Don’t make your payments, and there’s a cudgel of a solution—repossession.

Of all the things to use as a cudgel against her credibility, “she had the wrong mansion” seems like a weird one.

Culturally, racism is used as the unspoken cudgel against pro-working class policy.

Democrats, more than ever, see the GOP’s claims of fiscal discipline as a sham — a cudgel to be used against Democrats when they are in power and to be set aside when they are not.

For some activists, the specter of stepped-up prosecutions against women who buy abortion drugs is closer to a political gift than a cudgel.

For the far right’s opponents, the Nigerian mafia has proved to be a trickier case — a problem that is politically risky to play down but that they say is being exploited as a cudgel against all migrants.

If there's no "stigma" to unionization, if it's considered just a regular thing that workers everywhere do whether their jobs or companies are "bad" or not, they lose the ability to use that argument as a cudgel against unionizing workers.

The State Department of Corrections uses tickets as a cudgel against people who are in custody.

The succeeding events appear to have borne out the journalists’ deepest concerns, with the government almost immediately using the legislation as a cudgel against political critics.

We cudgel textbook theories while issues that should be addressed continued to be atrophied; either deliberately or inadvertently.