walking stick

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Recent Examples of walking stick 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 Thoreau worked as a surveyor after the book’s publication, and his surveying map of the Concord River, displayed alongside his walking stick and the Walden manuscript, shows that his observations of nature were practical as well as poetic. Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for walking stick 
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Noun
  • It will be transformed into a fresh new home, as will the neighboring chapel. , which has amassed over 200,000 views on TikTok, shows the suspicious door that was once underneath the bath, with Mandy using a chisel and a hammer to pry it open.
    Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Ah, but Hal’s already there, in the basement with a hammer embedded in his skull.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Cyber crooks make good money by targeting checking accounts and bank accounts.
    Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In their native home in Brazil, Christmas cacti grow as epiphytes in the crooks of tree branches.1 For successful growth indoors, choose a well-draining potting soil containing perlite and a container with good drainage holes.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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
  • Two suspects used a sledgehammer to smash a glass display to steal three Chanel handbags that were said to be worth $10,000 each.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
  • An example is labor once using sledgehammers and pick axes to demo and now using a jackhammer.
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 24 July 2024
Noun
  • Insects such as ants, bees, and beetles create burrows, just as arachnids like spiders and scorpions do.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Some of the most common insects found in leaf piles include ants, beetles, centipedes, millipedes, pillbugs, earwigs, spiders and ticks, per USA TODAY.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2024

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