sticks
Example Sentences
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At the edge of the crowd, a clutch of children were all drawing flamingos on a long piece of cardboard on the ground, and many people held pink flamingos on sticks.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The US tariffs hit items like hockey sticks and cement, impacting about 5.5 percent of Canadian exports to the United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
As it turned out, the sticks were sticky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Instead, I’ve been looking at plane tickets, researching heart failure and ordering groceries that, at first, didn’t make much sense together: zucchini, canned pumpkin, chocolate chunks, sticks of cold salted butter.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
I figured that the sticks would take up too much room in the sack.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
