broomstick
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It’s friendly magic, the sort that lets you ride around on a broomstick instead of the kind that splits your soul into a bunch of little pieces.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Thankfully, Erivo’s maturity now works since her character is wiser and more cynical — although it’s still goofy to see her skateboarding on a broomstick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Rather than buying a broomstick in Diagon Alley, it is store-bought PVC pipes players use to hold between their legs.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
He just stood in place and shook the broomstick.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Hundreds of women wearing pink and wielding broomsticks marched to parliament in Indonesia's capital on Wednesday to protest against police abuses and wasteful government spending.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
The main school, housed in a three-story red brick building, is something of a living monument to the traditions of English private schools — Harry Potter without robes and broomsticks.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Rowling in her hugely popular Harry Potter series — which features witches and wizards flying on broomsticks trying to score goals — is rebranding.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
About ten minutes later, four broomsticks came swooping down out of the darkness.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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