On this page you'll find 6 example sentences with Nightstick. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as truncheon or baton and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Nightstick meaning
- A long, narrow, polelike club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.
- The penis.
- A person who spends much time in bars and nightclubs, and generally indulges themselves during the night.
Using Nightstick
- The main meaning on this page is: A long, narrow, polelike club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense. | The penis. | A person who spends much time in bars and nightclubs, and generally indulges themselves during the night.
- Useful related words include: truncheon, baton, billy, billystick.
Context around Nightstick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nightstick
- In this selection, "nightstick" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, retractable, first, toward, radio and came stand out and add context to how "nightstick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by a nightstick another lost and gacy his nightstick. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nightstick" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nightstick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dijak showed Gacy his nightstick. (5 words)
The first nightstick came down on Lewis’s skull,” Remnick wrote in 2009. (13 words)
Lee rolled to the apron, and Damian Priest, elsewhere on the outside, had his retractable nightstick. (16 words)
Auxiliary officers are armed with a nightstick, radio and handcuffs — but no firearm — and serve as supplementary enforcement patrolling housing developments, subways and houses of worship. (26 words)
Some in the crowd were hospitalized, One protester needed stitches to repair a knee broken by a nightstick; another lost two fingers in a car door. (26 words)
A trooper jabbed the butt of a nightstick toward Lewis and officers quickly pushed into the group. (17 words)
Example sentences (6)
Dijak showed Gacy his nightstick.
A trooper jabbed the butt of a nightstick toward Lewis and officers quickly pushed into the group.
Auxiliary officers are armed with a nightstick, radio and handcuffs — but no firearm — and serve as supplementary enforcement patrolling housing developments, subways and houses of worship.
Lee rolled to the apron, and Damian Priest, elsewhere on the outside, had his retractable nightstick.
The first nightstick came down on Lewis’s skull,” Remnick wrote in 2009.
Some in the crowd were hospitalized, One protester needed stitches to repair a knee broken by a nightstick; another lost two fingers in a car door.