How to Use nunchuck in a Sentence

nunchuck

noun
  • To his advantage, the nunchucks flew out of his hands and hit an audience member.
    Ella Gonzales may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
  • His empathy doesn’t last—the end of the film swings back to nunchuck heroics—but the critters retain an elegiac aura.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Many audiences may recognize him best as the shirtless, nunchuck-wielding man in the coming-of-age classic Ghost World (2001).
    Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Many audiences may recognize him best as the shirtless, nunchuck-wielding oddball in the coming-of-age classic Ghost World (2001).
    Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
  • The program’s first three sketches prominently featured humanoid robots, including a lengthy martial arts demonstration where over a dozen Unitree humanoids performed sophisticated fight sequences waving swords, poles and nunchucks in close proximity to human children performers.
    Reuters, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026

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