broomstick
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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
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
It ends with the flossing dance, a broomstick ride and the perfect title: “Gladiator Twosical.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2024
Yep, he’d put the tip of the broomstick on top of his head and keep it up there a while.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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
We come across cauldrons, broomsticks and giant tins of baked beans.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
“I just remembered it is All Hallows Eve. This is the night the witches are supposed to ride abroad on broomsticks, and the spirits do all sorts of queer things.”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
