Sentence examples for message stick from inspiring English sources
noun
A piece of wood, etched with angular lines and dots, traditionally used by Australian aborigines to communicate messages between different clans and language groups.
[C9.] Trying to Make a Message Stick Guerrilla marketers are taking to the streets.
Strength in Numbers Inside the Capitol, Mr. McConnell has a different Republican message: stick together in resisting Mr. Obama's ambition.
Messengers and envoys were accredited, sacred, and inviolable; they usually carried some emblem, such as a message stick, and were received with elaborate ceremonies.
The Ngambri elder Matilda House-Williams presented Rudd with a message stick and explained that a welcome to country "acknowledges our people and pays respect to our ancestors, the spirits who created the lands.
"His responsibility is to repeat the essence of the statement," she said, "repeat the message, stick with that message through every interview — even in conversations that are supposed to be off the record or on background".
On Lampshades on Fire, however, Brock does combine his band's trademark jittery energy with enough melodic fuel to make his grim message stick: "The air's on fire so we're moving on / Better find another one 'cos this one's done".
But Ms. Flynn-Bisson contends that the Swallow This message sticks.
McLeod smears ochre on our faces and hands and we stand in a circle as he claps message sticks.
Waiters in red jackets and bow ties carry message sticks in order to alert diners to phone calls.
His message stuck, as more than 195 of the prisoners "came forward" and said they accepted Jesus Christ in their lives.
