How to Use pogo stick in a Sentence

pogo stick

noun
  • Williams dances like Michael Jackson with a pogo stick in his pants.
    Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2018
  • Kids aged three and up will enjoy this foam pogo stick.
    Ni'kesia Pannell, Woman's Day, 3 Nov. 2022
  • This winter season has been up and down like a clown on a pogo stick.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • One of the most popular is a pogo stick that comes out every now and then.
    azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • Those pogo stick legs allow the ostrich to run in excess of 40 miles per hour.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
  • Williams, a soaring sophomore, has looked more like a pogo stick of late for the Aggies, who play host to No.
    Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Those odds aren’t stopping the human pogo stick of a big man named Ray Spalding.
    Greg Moore, azcentral, 9 July 2019
  • That’s because a running leg behaves a bit like a pogo stick.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2012
  • Visitors tried their hand at pogo-sticking in a free jump area that had pogo sticks of all sizes.
    USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
  • Cameron also enjoys playing on his pogo stick and iPod, Nerf guns, and is quite the skilled fisherman.
    kansascity, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Great for toddlers to school-age kids, this is an easy-to-use and affordable alternative to the pogo stick.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Looking more like a 12 gauge pogo stick than a shotgun, the Space Gun had a bottom loading port and a bolt handle that stuck straight down.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 5 May 2020
  • The shop has everything — kites, pogo sticks, kids' books, spirographs, plush stuffed animals.
    Griffin Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • One glorious photo shows a laughing young man on a pogo stick.
    Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • And then Santa made his drop and the gifts were more interesting: a badminton set, a pogo stick, and one year a new bike to replace the old wobbly one.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The blade itself is like a pogo stick, made of carbon graphite, propelling me forward with every beat on the pavement.
    Krysten Chambrot, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Modern Pogo Stick Trade out that clunky old pogo stick for something a lot more portable and space-saving.
    Christina Oehler, Health.com, 9 June 2020
  • The spacecraft is designed to touch and push off Bennu’s surface like a pogo stick, sucking up fine grit into the end of its sampling arm.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
  • But if pogo sticks are secondary to Cangoroo’s brand, the company is already a success.
    NBC News, 7 June 2019
  • Like a pogo stick, your body can store energy from impact and then release it to propel your body forward.
    Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2019
  • With apologies to an old Oldsmobile commercial: This is not your father’s pogo stick.
    John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2018
  • One competitor bounded across the stage on a pogo stick, while another spun circles on roller skates.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Extreme pogo stick athletes from around the world came to town to show off their huge tricks and flips to compete for world titles in such categories as High Jump and Best Trick.
    USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
  • Others greeted Carrie on pogo sticks or shot off fireworks.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
  • So seeing Mom on a pogo stick or Dad attempt a hula hoop record could start a chain reaction that gets everyone laughing.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, Family, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Now, an international company wants to add pogo sticks to those ranks.
    Alexa Díaz, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
  • Since then, Razor has dabbled in other products like pogo sticks and hoverboards, all while continuing to pump out scooters of all shapes and sizes.
    Eliot Brown, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • For example, pogo stick day at the office would be very different depending on what everyone else happens to be wearing or not wearing.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Even in a package with less cargo space than its smallest sedan and hatchback, Mazda's suspension tuning was optimized for low body roll without turning the ride into a pogo stick.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 24 July 2021
  • Instead of worrying about exactly where the legs are or what the arms are doing, the analysis basically models each runner as a pogo stick—what’s known in the biomechanics world as the spring-mass model.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 June 2021

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