walking sticks
- plural of walking stick.
Example Sentences
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Next day, business was completely held up for a whole afternoon and part of an evening by battalions of irate men and women, armed with walking-sticks and umbrellas, who beseiged the Reichstag building.
From Time Magazine Archive
About half of them were old people with walking-sticks, but there were also plenty of families with a husband, a wife and several children.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
The boys, who had been cutting walking-sticks from the hazels by the lake edge, consented to a halt, and settled down with their penknives, whittling away busily.
From For the School Colours by Brazil, Angela
Our grandfather's walking-sticks, very tired-looking, leaning dejected against the wall under a faded dirty picture of the Baptist college he built—it's a Roman Catholic hospital now.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
At the end of the week he chose from his collection of walking-sticks a Jersey cabbage-stalk, which he offered to lend her for promenades about the shrubbery.
From Rich Relatives by MacKenzie, Compton
