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Example sentences for "long stick"

  • The length of wire may be determined by the following method: Wind the wire on a long stick, making sure that no one coil touches its neighbor.

  • Generally a long stick is used for this purpose, but I desired to have a better way, and the device shown in the illustration was the outcome.

  • To control the direction and make the model fly in a circle it is fastened to a long stick or beam which is pivoted in the center.

  • Dick, as he took up a long stick, over which he had just tripped, and thrust it in through the opening.

  • Roger had already laid aside his gun, and picking up a long stick, he commenced to belabor some of the coiled snakes.

  • Their usual way of making the arrows deadly was to find a healthy looking rattlesnake, and provoke him by thrusts from a long stick.

  • Any one who ventured into the crowd without such a leaf would be unceremoniously hustled out of it, unless indeed he bore as a substitute a large cabbage at the end of a long stick or a bunch of grass curiously plaited.

  • In that case she may not go near a living soul: the mere contact with things she has used is exceedingly dangerous: her food is handed to her at the end of a long stick.

  • Their duty is to run after people whom they see and to beat them with a long stick.

  • Raddled 'em up with a long stick on purpose to get me stung to death, he did, as is a massy I warn't.

  • Then he began to look about to see if he could not find a long stick or pole which he could throw on the mud, and on it could wade out to the nests, but nothing of the sort was near.

  • Still Tim went bravely on, feeling his way with a long stick which he carried, till once more he began to get higher and higher out of the water, and soon reached the opposite bank in safety.

  • Tim and Sambo, after having secured it to the end of a long stick, carried it in triumph to the settlement.

  • I did not till then observe that the raft had come close in, and I now saw Sambo, who had leaped from it, making rapidly towards the shore with a long stick in his hand.

  • So Marco cut a long stick, and, after he had made the end sharp, he put a slice of bread upon it, and placed it before the fire, and thus toasted the bread.

  • So he began to feel for them in the ashes, by means of a long stick, which they had obtained for a poker.

  • And now I want a long stick for a toaster.

  • The old man felt beside him for his crook--a long stick with a hook at the upper end--and got up.

  • The heat of the huge fire they made, added to that of the summer sun, was too great--they could not approach it, and therefore managed to turn the duck after a fashion with a long stick.

  • A piece of tar-cord was inserted in a long stick split at the end.

  • Bevis was standing on the summit of the cliff with a long stick burning at the end in his hand.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long stick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    depreciated currency; less extensive; long article; long cord; long enough; long experience; long face; long hill; long last; long minute; long peace; long ranges; long rows; long space; long stick; long strip; long succession; long suit; long talk; long tyme; long vowel; long year; longer existed; longer love; longer thought; should arrive