Sentence examples for long staff from inspiring English sources

In the first part a woman with a shaved head, the formidable Duan Ni, twirls a long staff.

He wore a draped brown robe and carried a long staff with a gourd affixed to the top.

Carrying a long staff of blond wood, he crossed his legs Indian style, put his hands on his knees, and looked at Khalid.

If you have long hair, you can hide the thing completely, which completely changes the experience of attending long staff meetings.

Relegated by leg problems to sidewalks' slow lanes, where I walk cautiously, aided by a long staff, I noted that fellow pedestrians accorded me ample sidewalk space; that throngs of Macy's shoppers cut me significant slack; and that our innumerable street crossings were not punctuated by honking horns as traffic lights turned red.

Named after the long staff wielded by Roman Catholic clerics, the candy-cane-shaped bishop's crooks first appeared in the city in the 1890's and continued to be common until the 1960's, when many of the old cast-iron poles were replaced in hopes of establishing a streetlight standard.

In another striking moment that ends the first act, Giulietta is pinned by a spotlight while soldiers circle her with long staffs raised.

"For too long staffing agencies have been able to rip off the NHS by charging extortionate hourly rates which cost billions of pounds a year and undermine staff working hard to deliver high-quality care," Mr Hunt said.

Prison officials displayed about two dozen metal sticks and wooden staffs taken from brooms and mops, a metal bar taken from exercise equipment, and long staffs made from crushed bottles wrapped in tape.

Four-month-long staff courses were introduced, and filled with regimental officers who, upon completing their training, were posted to various headquarters.

Make the two people with the longest staffs fight each other in a wizard's duel, or use all the empties to make a big tower of cans and act out scenes from Lord of the Rings.