How to Use mace in a Sentence

mace

1 of 2 noun
  • The guard had the man secured and had a can of mace in his hand.
    — cleveland, 30 July 2021
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Weapons like a spiky mace are used against the creatures, but there’s no blood or gore.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Danielson turned toward the shouts and lifted the can of bear mace.
    — Bryan Denson, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2020
  • What kind of person would spray homeless people with bear mace?
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • More officers were called in and had to use mace and smoke to disperse the crowds.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The seeds and mace of the nutmeg plant, which is known to contain myristicin.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In return, agents sprayed mace, tear gas and threw smoke bombs at protesters.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Bear mace is far more pressurized and can have a spray range of up to 40 feet.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Make your workout more medieval with this steel mace from Onnit.
    — Mark Stock and Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Carter said police used mace to break up the fight, and one person was arrested.
    — Dezimey Kum, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • Woods quickly surrendered, asking the men not to spray him with mace.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Dan shouts and screams at the tax collector, who sprays mace or pepper spray in Dan’s face.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The two girls and the mother argued, and the older girl spayed the younger girl with mace or pepper spray.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2021
  • These maces, which date back to the 17th century, are made of silver gilt over oak.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Stir in the crabmeat and roe (or yolk); add pepper and mace, and cook 20 minutes.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023

mace

2 of 2 verb
  • She maced the man who attacked her.
  • Agents used batons and mace on demonstrators.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • One neighbor who went to Fuentes’ door to ask about the remark told police she was maced by the race-baiting provocateur.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • An arriving learned a Mentor man attempted to mace an employee.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2021
  • At any moment, we could be corralled in a mass detention sweep, bound and raped and maced and mauled for committing the crime of simply existing on our land.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Eight tenants have accused her of bear-macing residents, physical violence, threatening to call immigration officials and failing to maintain basic sanitary conditions.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Video footage of the incident obtained by KQED appears to show the women gesticulating and shouting at the correctional staff before the officers form a line and deploy pepper spray and mace grenades at the group.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At the same time, ICE and other DHS agents have been documented having fired pellets at a protesting pastor in Chicago, throwing a migrant woman to the floor of a New York City immigration court and having maced a woman in Portland, Oregon.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of agents swarmed the area along with a military vehicle, Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, told USA TODAY, saying agents used batons and mace on demonstrators.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025

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