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Recent Examples of walking stick
The most conspicuous objects on the seabed were porcelain and thousands of rattan canes, intended for use as walking sticks or in furniture-making.
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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
See all Example Sentences for walking stick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for walking stick
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The park’s seven-acre boulder field contains piles of large diabase (an igneous rock) stones formed some 175 million years ago that sound like bells when hit with a hammer.—
Emily Matchar,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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Investigators spoke with Dillon’s 5-year-old daughter, who said her mother had killed the pets earlier in the week by using a hammer and her knee.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
25 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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During the hold-up at least one of the crooks opened fire, striking 37-year-old Yun Li in the head and a 42-year-old man in the face, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Cyber crooks do their research to sound real People unknowingly make the problem worse with social media posts by identifying family members — say your son Leo or your daughter Kate — in videos or photos.—
Susan Tompor,
USA TODAY,
19 Dec. 2024
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.—
Matt Schubert,
The Denver Post,
3 Nov. 2024
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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
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To the surprise of his wife and son, Chappelle’s Reggie starts taking a sledgehammer to the wall to retrieve $500,000 in cash and a counterfeit passport.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
19 Jan. 2025
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The decision took a sledgehammer to Smith’s federal election subversion indictment against Trump and laid out an uncertain path for his other criminal cases.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
27 Dec. 2024
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The downy woodpecker eats the beetles that cause Dutch elm disease, as well as the emerald ash borer, which is wreaking havoc on our native ashes.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The two beetles face off in battle, until the first manages to get enough leverage to toss his romantic rival off the stump in a deft display of insect jujitsu.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walking%20stick. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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