Examples of mace in a Sentence
Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
Stir in milk, then crabmeat and roe (or yolk); add pepper and mace and cook 20 minutes.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
When paranoia strikes, a religious devotee of Hindu god Hanuman battles it with a mace.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
Sitting in the shade, the two men sliced the fruit open, casting aside the outer flesh and keeping the seeds with their mace covering.
—Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The figure is a winged warrior who typically prefers her mace.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 July 2023
Competitors use soft weapons, rather than axes, saws and maces.
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—Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
When the strikers held their first march, on Feb. 23, the police attacked them with batons and mace.
—Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
John Benson, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2021
One such incident saw anti-fascists mace the driver of a pickup truck bearing Trump and Confederate flags who stepped out of his vehicle to confront them.
—Tim Gruver | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2021
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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mace. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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mace
1 of 2 nounmace
2 of 2 nounNoun
Middle English mace "a heavy spiked club," from early French mace (same meaning); probably of Latin origin
Noun
Middle English mace "the spice mace," from early French mascie, macis (same meaning), from Latin macis "an East Indian spice"
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