broomstick
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Fahmy painted a Keith Haring-style black-and-white mural at the top of the stairs and continued onto the second-floor walls using a paintbrush taped to a broomstick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
To disguise the swelling caused by hours of handshaking, Volk suggested Lincoln grasp a sawed-off broomstick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
It’s friendly magic, the sort that lets you ride around on a broomstick instead of the kind that splits your soul into a bunch of little pieces.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
Rather than buying a broomstick in Diagon Alley, it is store-bought PVC pipes players use to hold between their legs.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The main school, housed in a three-story red brick building, is something of a living monument to the traditions of English private schools — Harry Potter without robes and broomsticks.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
The sisters run amok using Roombas instead of flying broomsticks and chug anti-aging creams in a local pharmacy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Rogozin also added: “Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don’t know what,” according to Reuters.
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2022
Quidditch first appeared as a fictional sport, played by wizards on flying broomsticks, in her book series.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2021
Figures on broomsticks were flying past the windows.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
