walking stick

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Recent Examples of walking stick This year, the Japanese designer Keiji Takeuchi organized an exhibition of elegant — even playful — walking sticks at Milan’s Triennale in May. Natalia Torija, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2024 Walking poles, also known as walking sticks, hiking sticks, hiking staffs, and trekking poles, can increase the benefits of walking. Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024 Belichick was also snapped solo taking a hike up a rocky hillside with a walking stick, as well as carrying a set of clubs along the Sankaty Head Golf Club in Massachusetts. Escher Walcott, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024 Thoreau worked as a surveyor after the book’s publication, and his surveying map of the Concord River, displayed alongside his walking stick and the Walden manuscript, shows that his observations of nature were practical as well as poetic. Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for walking stick 
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Noun
  • Think of trust as a foundation, and each lie is a hammer slowly chipping away at it.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Sean Combs’ physical violence was allegedly directed at both his romantic partners and personal employees, with the music mogul accused of once attempting to beat down a woman’s door with a hammer.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2024
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
  • The crooks eventually got caught (at least some of them) then served prison time (even fewer of them).
    Ed Herro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But plenty of crooks just swipe checks right from your mailbox.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Many people are up in arms, acting like parent company JLR has smashed a kitten with a sledgehammer.
    James Morris, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Two suspects used a sledgehammer to smash a glass display to steal three Chanel handbags that were said to be worth $10,000 each.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The beetle, grasped by the stink bug, was still struggling and fluttering to escape, as Justin took the photo in Hong Kong.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • As cold weather approaches, the Asian beetles, an invasive species often confused for the native ladybugs, seek out places to overwinter.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walking%20stick. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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