"carry" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Actual meaning: London police menacingly carried truncheons (billy clubs) as weapons.
- Witnesses said some students initially resisted the soldiers, who carried automatic weapons, truncheons, and tear-gas canisters.
- They carried black truncheons and small cylindrical green boxes on their web belts.
- Some of the security officers are seen carrying sticks, truncheons and shields.
- But several of them carried heavy truncheons, almost maces, wherever they went.
- Me boss has his very own police, the fight stewards what wears red armbands and carries truncheons, and they ain't reluctant to use 'em either.
- They were forbidden to marry, were paid less than men, and were not allowed to carry truncheons.
- It has also balked at demands from police associations that officers be allowed to carry 24-inch-long, American-style side-handle truncheons.
- In the Victorian era, police in London carried truncheons about one-foot long called billy clubs.
- Until the mid-1990s, British police officers carried traditional wooden truncheons of a sort that had changed little from Victorian times.
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