Sentence examples for a raised stick from inspiring English sources

His introduction before the game brought a standing ovation, which Messier acknowledged with a raised stick.

For example, Chlamydera cerviniventris, which constructs an elaborate avenue with two courts propped up on a raised stick platform, has brains 10% larger than Sericulus chrysocephalus, which puts up two bunches of twigs, scatters some shells, and leaves it at that.

When the teams' planes landed last Wednesday, players, coaches and administrators were greeted by a red carpet on the tarmac, a steel drum band, a human tunnel of area youth hockey players with raised sticks to walk between and standard Florida tokens like oranges.

Inside this city is a house my student resides in with her family, not rich not poor, not a colored family, so she's not a colored daughter falling between society's cracks, unwed, broke, child to raise, stuck in a dead-end job, bills, bills, more bills and more trashy jobs to pay them until the end of time.

To hold pebbles and see jewels, To raise sticks and see forests, To smile with weeping eyes-This is Faith.

The nest, which is built by both sexes, is a raised mound of sticks, uprooted grass, and other plant material sited on a small island in shallow water, or occasionally floating.

On a slow, sad song, he ceremoniously raised a stick high in the air between downbeats, closing his eyes and pointing to the ceiling.

Without a sound, he raised his stick with his right arm in a pose reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty.

A constable raises his stick.

When it was over, he raised his stick to a roaring, appreciative crowd.

During a face-off and through the fog, Sabres center Jim Lorentz spotted a bat flying across the rink, raised his stick, and killed it.