Sentence examples for flaming stick from inspiring English sources

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The percussion stops — she drops to her knees, throws her head back, and pushes a flaming stick deep into her throat, extinguishing the fire with her lips.

"It's burned a hole in our carpet, blistered the paintwork around our door and ruined whole shelves of hair products," says Ali Akay, 22, manager of the Re-Style gentleman's grooming salon, as he rapidly dabs a flaming stick into a customer's ear.

They juggle treacherous objects, including a butcher knife and a flaming stick.

Flinty and unconcerned, he would light the next smoke from a flaming stick plunged into his camp fire.Mr Winfield certainly wore those clothes and roped those cattle; they were his.

(German engineers are said to maintain that drivers shouldn't allow themselves to be distracted by sipping coffee while barreling down the autobahn. Yet they have always provided perfectly situated cigarette lighters and ashtrays, as if driving while holding a flaming stick is somehow less distracting).

Holding a flaming stick above his head, he bounced light off the ceiling of his cave, bathing his dwelling in a soft, embracing glow — the first indirect lighting.

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He could cook chocolate chip pancakes for a crowd and thrill a small cousin by juggling balls, beanbags and finally, flaming sticks.

All eyes were focused on a juggling team that tossed flaming sticks in the air, their acrobatics accompanied by the rhythmic beating of tom-toms played by musicians clad in billowy Ali Baba pants.

Right away it fills the stage with drummers beating out rhythms with flaming sticks, performers inside flaming hoops, a woman with a flaming hoop in her teeth and a man pedaling a bicycle with blazing wheels.

But his final chapter seems to imply, at least, that Africa is more primitive and less rational than other violent parts of the world: he visits a village witch doctor, whose apprentices put on a demonstration of eating razor blades, placing flaming sticks on their skins and other such feats.

When the flaming instrument sticks to the hand of the panicked contestant, Mona just happens to be standing by with a fire extinguisher to save the day and further humiliate her, covering her in a thick blanket of foam.

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