Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: brandished
IPA transcription: [bɹ'ændɪʃt]
Usage examples
  • Oh yes! he could do that, and as for the sword, he brandished it like a feather.
  • Oh yes! he could do that, and as for the sword, he brandished it like a feather.
  • And when he came abreast of them he brandished his arms up and down, as a ship hoists and lowers her yards, and shouted with his brazen throat like a trumpet from off the hills: "You are pirates, you are robbers!
  • A few old pictures, dimmed with smoke, and stained with March beer, hung on the walls, representing knights and ladies, honoured, doubtless, and renowned in their day; those frowning fearfully from huge bushes of wig and of beard; and these looking delightfully with all their might at the roses which they brandished in their hands.