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
I was the first person to play Quidditch on a broomstick.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 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
The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
“The boy’s a natural. I’ve never seen anything like it. Was that your first time on a broomstick, Potter?”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
“Those guys are enormous and they’re fast. Again, we can practice with guys that have broomsticks attached to their hands. This is going to be new for us in some ways.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Their thinking about Ohlone cuisine has evolved: pastas harken back to Medina’s Sicilian great-great-great grandfather, who used broomsticks to dry them, and to Mexican and vaquero- inflected dishes like Venison Chile Colorado.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2022
Instead of flying, the players run with ersatz broomsticks positioned between their legs as they jostle, catch, defend and tackle to score points and win.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 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
So they laid broomsticks across their doors at night and sprinkled salt on porch steps.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
