What's the difference between brandishing and flaunting?

Brandishing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brandish

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brandishing cash sweeteners so squarely directed at different age groups opens another fracture along generational lines.
  • (2) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
  • (3) Brandishing images of what Virgin "lounges" might look like – similar to a stark yet trendy hotel restaurant – Gadhia admits that her other motto for running the business is "wanting to make everyone better off".
  • (4) Jones, on the scene moments later, reached for his back pocket and brandished the red card.
  • (5) "How do you convince the world that you are open for business while brandishing nuclear weapons at the world's largest economy and kidnapping an octogenarian?"
  • (6) Islamist extremist Man Monis , brandishing a shotgun and claiming he was an Isis operative with explosives in his backpack, took 18 people hostage inside the Lindt cafe on the morning of 15 December 2014.
  • (7) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
  • (8) A video that surfaced in the aftermath of the battle for Donetsk airport last month showed “Givi”, one of the rebel commanders, throwing Ukrainian prisoners into the mud, hitting them in the face, and brandishing a knife at them.
  • (9) On Saturday, a man in a white pickup truck brandished a gun and fired into the air during a confrontation with protesters.
  • (10) This article was amended on 9 June 2015 to reflect the fact the police officer pulled his gun on two other teenagers but brandished it at the girl.
  • (11) As Cleveland officials investigate a police shooting of a 12-year-old African American boy who was brandishing a fake gun at a Cleveland playground, one state lawmaker is calling for such toys to be specially marked.
  • (12) A photograph of Tarkeshwari Rathod brandishing the Indian flag on the summit – which was used by the Nepal Tourism Board to verify their claim – has also been questioned, with skeptics saying that the shadows suggest it was taken closer to noon.
  • (13) His appeal to the Labour party members tends to involve him brandishing his party card and affirming his loyalty to its motto: Putting power, wealth and opportunity into the hands of the many.
  • (14) to a megaphone-brandishing woman with the words "moralising slut" written across her chest (a reference to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who called Madonna a moralising "slut" when she expressed support for Pussy Riot).
  • (15) Lee Probert, the referee, brandished a straight red card following Sessègnon's second-half challenge on Yacouba Sylla at Villa Park as Sunderland succumbed to a damaging 6-1 defeat .
  • (16) It began at last month’s Democratic convention when Khan’s father, Khizr, excoriated Trump and asked, “Have you even read the United States constitution?” while brandishing a copy above his head.
  • (17) Khan's mother said she had been shocked at how different he seemed in the video, which is entitled There's No Life Without Jihad and shows Khan, Nasser Muthana and three other men brandishing guns as they implore others to join them fighting in Syria.
  • (18) Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.
  • (19) What we are actually seeing is the brandishing of powerlessness from our political class, the shrinking of their ability to think differently or even widely.
  • (20) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.

Flaunting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flaunt

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (2) Since she won the Nobel prize, tree planting has become an essential for all countries wanting to flaunt green credentials.
  • (3) Vladimir Putin flaunts that disrespect with his actions over Ukraine.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 29 January 2015 to correct a misuse of flaunt for flout in the sub-heading.
  • (5) From the age of 38, he led the Liberals for nine years, flaunting his advantage when, out on the election trail in 1974 wearing a trademark trilby, he vaulted a security barrier like a Moulin Rouge can-can dancer.
  • (6) These days, Banks flaunts his political views with a FTT (Fuck the Tories ) T-shirt.
  • (7) He flaunted a recent report by the BBC that suggests that more of the Lib Dem manifesto is being delivered in government than the priorities set out by the Conservatives, despite the fact that the Lib Dems have just eight percent of MPs in Westminster.
  • (8) The state-funded Genocide Museum on the main boulevard of Vilnius does not mention the word "Holocaust"; it is all about Soviet crimes; and even flaunts antisemitic exhibits.
  • (9) But Grazia drooling over Kardashian's "well-dressed bottom" is akin to the Mail Online claiming that women are "flaunting" their legs , when all they're doing is walking.
  • (10) The myth of wealth and gratification he flaunts in this portrait was largely fantasy when he started out.
  • (11) It is felt that the current belief of greater homosexuality in actors, as compared to the general population, is a product of our Puritan heritage, the actor's unconventionality, and of public flaunting of the homoerotic behavior of that portion of actors that are homosexual.
  • (12) Zhan Jiang, a journalism professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and prominent online opinion leader, said officials were now less likely to take obvious bribes and flaunt their power – one sign that the drive should be taken seriously.
  • (13) From selfies on super-yachts to posing with private jets, the young heirs of the uber-wealthy have attracted worldwide envy and derision by flaunting their lavish lifestyles on social media.
  • (14) "Flaunting one's curves" means, simply, that you have a female body and to have a female body means, obviously, that you want to be ogled and quite possibly more.
  • (15) A beekeeper brazenly flaunting his face-covering When Ukip first announced its ban on face-coverings it was asked if it would apply to beekeepers, and there, on page 52 of the manifesto, is a picture of one – just 15 pages after the burqa ban section.
  • (16) Although City have no issue with the result, the club believe the stadium ban was flaunted.
  • (17) Growing up gay in the Australian bush: 'We do not flaunt it, it's who we are' Read more I believe marriage equality can be achieved relatively soon, but only with a well-thought out plan, good organising, the participation of grassroots supporters and a lot of heart.
  • (18) Flaunting a corporate and totalitarian style, they stand before an ugly pseudo-classical painting of a mountain range straddled by the Great Wall, forming their own human wall of dark-suited conformity.
  • (19) The people it doesn’t belong to and who don’t belong there are those who grabbed it by force of arms, flaunting their contempt for the local citizens.” Le Guin, who lives in northwest Portland, said that the people of Harney County “have carefully hammered out agreements to manage the refuge in the best interest of landowners, scientists, visitors, tourists, livestock and wildlife”, and that “they’re suffering more every day, economically and otherwise, from this invasion by outsiders”.
  • (20) But to the oracle I must return once more because what the Washington Post once was to Nixon's corruption, Mail Online is to women flaunting their curves: tireless in its determination to expose such things, fearless in the face of mockery of its myopic and, to sceptical outsiders, decidedly deranged obsession.

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