cane
Example Sentences
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Matthies uses a white cane to guide him over the ground and along walls, but he says that becomes near-impossible when the path is obstructed.
From BBC
A jillion little game trails twisted their way through jungles of wild cane and matted masses of elder.
From Literature
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She wasn’t so old, but she was hunched and she had a cane and one foot was turned in.
From Literature
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Tikriti suggested he could spray the person’s hair gray and give him a cane so he could look to be in his 60s.
From Los Angeles Times
There were pieces that looked as if they belonged in the Middle Ages, dresses covered in lace and golden thread, feather boas, jackets covered in stripes, canes with metal heads, robes fit for Merlin himself.
From Literature
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