broomstick
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, it can feel like he’s being rammed with a broomstick.
From Seattle Times
This time around, he said early this month, U.S. astronauts could get to orbit by riding “broomsticks.”
From Scientific American
Local residents carried broomsticks and buckets and waded knee-deep in water.
From Reuters
Mr. Nashiri’s lawyers protested the use of the C.I.A. information and added that the prisoner had made the disclosure as interrogators used a broomstick in a particularly cruel way, causing him to cry out.
From New York Times
They said Mr. Nashiri divulged the information at a time when U.S. agents were using a broomstick in a particularly cruel way while questioning him, which alarmed observers and caused the captive to cry out.
From New York Times
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