broomstick
Americannoun
-
broomsticks
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of broomstick
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Fahmy painted a Keith Haring-style black-and-white mural at the top of the stairs and continued onto the second-floor walls using a paintbrush taped to a broomstick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
To disguise the swelling caused by hours of handshaking, Volk suggested Lincoln grasp a sawed-off broomstick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
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
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
Instead, he dropped his end of 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
They both walked stiffly, like they had broomsticks taped to their spines.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
