hockey sticks
- plural of hockey stick.
Example Sentences
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During these times, the brothers are looked after by Tiggy Legge-Bourke, a plump, cheerful young woman--"a jolly, hockey-sticks sort of person," as she has been described--who has aroused Diana's jealousy.
From Time Magazine Archive
We scrubbed the floor and washed the windows and polished the grate and dusted the ledges and wiped the picture-frames and carefully tidied away all the hockey-sticks and cricket-bats and umbrellas.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
When autumn returns, and the trees are all bare, Our blue tunics are off to the field; No team in excitement with ours can compare, As our hockey-sticks wildly we wield.
From The Luckiest Girl in the School by Brazil, Angela
Almost every afternoon as soon as school was out a crowd of scouts, with skates slung about their necks and hockey-sticks in hand, might have been seen hurrying along the turnpike.
From Under Boy Scout Colors by Ames, Joseph Bushnell
The boys you see parading the streets with hockey-sticks are but a small section, the aristocrats of the Society.
From The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
