Read full poem →Mop Sticks Waxing Brushes
Mop Wringers Feather Dusters
Dictionary Entry
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sticks”
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Read full poem →How hot the sheets are! His skin is tormented with pricks,
and over him sticks, and never moves, an eye. It lights the sky with blood,
and drips blood. And the drops sizzle on his bare skin, and he smells them
Read full poem →Until I killed a beast or two, and spread
Skins upon sticks to make our palace here,
A residence sadly exposed to wind and rain.
Read full poem →Until I killed a beast or two, and spread
Skins upon sticks to make our palace here,
A residence sadly exposed to wind and rain.
Read full poem →Or shift them quick, and bind them neat,
And dogs and boys with sticks
Wait, murderous, for the rats that leave the ruin'd ricks;
Read full poem →As why one conjures toads who fails with lice,
And hatching snakes from sticks in such a swarm
As quite to surfeit Aaron's bigger worm;
Read full poem →See once again the bobbing barrels,
And the black sticks that fence the weirs,
Read full poem →squires, and there
I sought for nests, wild flowers, oak sticks, and
moles, both far and near.
Read full poem →Our base needs, keeping down our lofty thoughts,
Head downward on the cross-sticks of the world.
Read full poem →was so sleepy that he couldn’t keep his eyes open any
longer. Then he took two little sticks and sharpened
them at the ends and propped open his eyelids, where-