How to Use cane in a Sentence
- The chair seat is made of cane.
- In the past, some teachers would resort to the cane when students misbehaved.
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The trunk also needs to support the full weight of the rose canes and blooms.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023 -
Charles had taught me to swing my cane wide in search of a bus pole.
— Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023 -
Shorten long, lanky canes that can whip around in the wind.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023 -
Just hit him with your cane and throw your dentures at him.
— Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 20 June 2023 -
Smoke from the burning cane fields inland seasoned the air.
— Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 -
The man uses a stick for a cane and carries a bundle of long twigs strapped to his back.
— Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023 -
East winds blew into the Glades just as thousands of acres of sugar cane burned.
— Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024 -
Trone resurfaced at the Capitol later in the day wielding a cane.
— Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023 -
Brush with cane syrup butter and sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
— Paige Grandjean, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2023 -
Hobbling in a black orthopedic boot, Hawkins marched the whole way with the help of a four-pronged cane.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023 -
The grafted rose with all its canes and blooms was forever gone.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023 -
Another poet, Mike, hobbles up in front of the group on a cane.
— Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2023 -
His 81-year-old mother-in-law didn’t have a car, and his wife’s sister needed a cane to walk.
— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Among his few respites were reading and fishing, using cane stalks and wheat-ball bait to catch carp and perch.
— Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023 -
The grasses — relics of the sugar cane plantations in the area that largely shuttered in 1999 — dried out the landscape.
— Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023 -
The photo shows Renner leaning against a pole while using a cane.
— Marc Malkin, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023 -
That said, the most popular beds these days are cane, low-profile, and velvet ones.
— Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 22 Dec. 2022 -
Mark Rissi, a 65-year-old Iowa man, walked into the courtroom using a cane.
— Yvonne Wingett Sanchez The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The cantilevered frame allows the seat some bounce, and visually offers a crisp contrast to the bentwood and cane seats and back.
— Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023 -
Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue.
— Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 -
To counter that, many people with EDS use crutches, wheelchairs, and canes to assist them.
— Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023 -
Dining The dining room combines the sleek feel of modern design with warmth of cane chairs and wooden floors.
— Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 May 2023 -
Below Wednesday’s evening blue skies, Chuck Adams stared at a pile of debris, a cane in his right hand and a paddle in his left.
— Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The island chain used to be home to a booming pineapple and sugar cane industry.
— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 17 Aug. 2023 -
The sugar beet is a root crop, which is sliced and processed down into sugar cane and molasses.
— Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024 -
The larger meaning of the cross, when carried near the worn and wearied Chavez hobbling along with the help of a cane, was not at all lost on farmworkers.
— Lloyd Daniel Barba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023 -
But on Réunion—the most far-flung of the lot, a small island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar—almost all the rum made there is from molasses, not cane juice.
— Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024 -
In October 2021, was spotted using a cane to assist her in walking.
— Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
- In the past, some teachers would cane students who misbehaved.
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Cut pieces of caning that are just larger than the inside ring, then attach to the ring with hot- glue.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 24 June 2023 -
He was once caned by the school’s principal for drinking from a water pot in the classroom that Dalits were barred from using.
— Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023 -
The details are exquisite, from the burgundy caning on a desk chair to the checkerboard marquetry on a coffee table.
— Diana Budds, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Such high-traffic areas can feel cluttered, but thoughtful details like caning can help calm the chaos.
— Caroline Picard, House Beautiful, 24 July 2023 -
Five men were sentenced to jail, caning and fines, sparking outrage among human rights activists.
— Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 July 2023 -
To use as a jewelry holder, simply hang or attach earrings through caning holes.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 24 June 2023 -
Cane’s marinates never-frozen chicken tenderloins for 24 hours before dropping it in the fryer.
— Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017 - In the past, some teachers would cane students who misbehaved.
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Cut pieces of caning that are just larger than the inside ring, then attach to the ring with hot- glue.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 24 June 2023 -
He was once caned by the school’s principal for drinking from a water pot in the classroom that Dalits were barred from using.
— Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023 -
The details are exquisite, from the burgundy caning on a desk chair to the checkerboard marquetry on a coffee table.
— Diana Budds, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Such high-traffic areas can feel cluttered, but thoughtful details like caning can help calm the chaos.
— Caroline Picard, House Beautiful, 24 July 2023 -
Five men were sentenced to jail, caning and fines, sparking outrage among human rights activists.
— Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 July 2023 -
To use as a jewelry holder, simply hang or attach earrings through caning holes.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 24 June 2023 -
Cane’s marinates never-frozen chicken tenderloins for 24 hours before dropping it in the fryer.
— Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
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