Sentence examples for pair of sticks from inspiring English sources

Often, it's a time for a blue plastic sheet you prop up with a pair of sticks.

In the north, flat gongs are played in different instrumental combinations (six gongs; two gongs, two drums and a pair of sticks; three gongs).

They're the servers who have not lived long enough in the United States to understand that many Americans have yet to master the pair of sticks that dominate the table in China.

Kenta Nagai, who helped build the sound system, creates a steady patter by tapping a suspended rope with a pair of sticks, and the dancers start to spread out, their jerky shapes evoking a feral kind of grace.

That was when the saxophonist Joe Lovano lumbered around the drum kit, grabbed a pair of sticks and took over, without breaking the chug-a-lug on a ride cymbal.

The new works made for an entertaining collection and demanded much of Mr. Galway, in one case, trading his flute for a pair of sticks and a set of drums on which he acquitted himself admirably.

And, in a rare lapse from his plain-and-simple drawing style, a pair of stick figures walk in an increasingly beautiful landscape after first declaring: "I feel like I'm wasting my life on the Internet.

On the contrary, the company members are forever challenging themselves to devise means of portraying the extraordinary through ordinary, dust-gathering items you might find in the corners of your garage or attic: a dressmaker's dummy, knitted afghans, a stepladder, a pair of stick horses, a taxidermy wolf's head and a rod festooned with discarded chintz curtains.

Cycling - Road: Sir Steve Redgrave sports a pair of stick-on Bradley Wiggins sideburns in tribute to Britain's most decorated Olympian.

There was plenty of bitterness growing up with a pair of stick legs.

Chances are you'll go through multiple pairs of sticks as you play.