walking stick

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Recent Examples of walking stick But when the actor playing Judge Brack, the play’s lustful old bachelor, emerged from the wings with his walking stick, eyeglass and thick mustache, the house erupted in jeers and boos. Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024 This year, the Japanese designer Keiji Takeuchi organized an exhibition of elegant — even playful — walking sticks at Milan’s Triennale in May. Natalia Torija, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2024 Walking poles, also known as walking sticks, hiking sticks, hiking staffs, and trekking poles, can increase the benefits of walking. Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024 Belichick was also snapped solo taking a hike up a rocky hillside with a walking stick, as well as carrying a set of clubs along the Sankaty Head Golf Club in Massachusetts. Escher Walcott, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for walking stick 
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Noun
  • In mid-December, confirmation that Lamine Yamal had succumbed to a right ankle knock picked up in the Champions League was a hammer blow for head coach Hansi Flick and his men.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The pope uses a ceremonial hammer to open each holy door.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years Dec. 6, 2024 The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella.
    Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The phone still at his ear, Dev crouched to the floor, his head cradled in the crook of his elbow.
    Kanak Kapur, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Some have been beheaded with sledgehammers, others completely torn down.
    Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Three of the crew jumped out of the car and, yet again, used sledgehammers and hammers, to get into a display case.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Upstairs, the team has a couple dozen beetles from earlier in the season.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the amulets are shaped like scarab beetles, which were thought to be imbued with magical properties in ancient Egypt.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024

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