walking stick

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Recent Examples of walking stick Russian troops on walking sticks were targeted on the front line in Ukraine, a battlefield video appears to show. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 According to prosecutors, body camera footage and his own words, Barnett entered Pelosi’s office suite with a flagpole and a stun device concealed in a walking stick. Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 Just don’t forget to ask the staff about a brown bag lunch and pick up your walking stick, given to every guest upon arrival, before setting out into the woods. Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025 His friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov urges him to compose, using a walking stick to tickle him awake. Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for walking stick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for walking stick
Noun
  • These included his miter and crozier, a pouch of commemorative coins, an official papal document known as the Rogito, a rosary and his fisherman's ring.
    Bethany Braun-Silva, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Dozens of bishops gathered outside, their white robes whipping in the wind as Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich struck the closed cathedral doors with his crozier, an ornate staff, to officially mark the cathedral’s reopening.
    Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • To break this invisible paint’s hold, place a thin, flexible putty knife in the gap and lightly tap it with a hammer.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
  • If confronted with someone with a hammer, most people would give up their bags.
    Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years Dec. 6, 2024 The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Many times, crooks can easily find a crypto ATM simply by searching online for bitcoin ATMs near you.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 10 July 2025
  • The crooks used a crowbar to break the front glass door of the Playersclub NY clothing store around 4:37 a.m.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The half ended with the Free Jacks once again putting the Sabercats under pressure, trying to force their way over the tryline through a rolling maul, and twice failing to score.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Minutes later, Hanover scored back-to-back tries with near identical mauls down the sideline.
    Marcello Rossetti, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • And bringing down this sledgehammer at this moment was emphasized by all of the European allies who were at the meeting that Senator Graham and I attended in Europe.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 July 2025
  • The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.
    Stephen L. Carter, Twin Cities, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Drugstore beetles are also called cigarette beetles.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • The beetle invasion was first detected during a routine library cleaning.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 July 2025

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