stick

The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.

I found several good sticks in the brush heap.

I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.

I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.

As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.

When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.

We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.

The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.

Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!

Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.

My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.

Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]

Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.

I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.

For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.

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A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.

[…]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]

Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?

Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.

His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.

His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.

I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.

Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.

"She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."

The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."

A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.

Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.

I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]

What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?

The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.

He really gave that digging some stick.

= he threw himself into the task of digging

Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.

There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]

The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.