Sentence examples for stick and ball from inspiring English sources

For beginners, though, the action is likely to be more mundane: basic instruction on technique (known as "stick and ball") in the morning, followed by chukkas in the afternoon.

The Windsor Hockey Heritage Society takes this phrase to mean that the boys of King's College had adopted the Irish stick and ball game of hurley to the ice on what today is known as Long Pond.

In 2009, when the Cork county goalkeeper Donal Og Cusack came out as gay, the novelist Colm Tóibín hailed him as "the first gay hurler since Cúchulainn", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Iron Age mythological warrior-hero whose feats with stick and ball make him the precursor of today's hurlers.

From my earliest childhood memories I was never without my shinty stick and ball.

(B) Structures of a BV P dimer (ribbon model) with Leb tetrasaccharides (stick and ball model) in side (left) and top (right) views, respectively.

Unlike "stick and ball" sports like baseball and football, race teams cannot survive without a sponsor, which pays for the car and its upkeep; the car becomes a giant, speeding commercial.

They underscore how different stick-and-ball and Olympic audiences are.

Other early stick-and-ball games included the English game of cambuca (a term of Celtic origin).

Still, baseball is the best of the stick-and-ball games, despite -- perhaps because of -- its disconnection from reality.

Hurling, also called hurley, outdoor stick-and-ball game somewhat akin to field hockey and lacrosse and long recognized as the national pastime of Ireland.

He has antique wicker in every conceivable form, woven in patterns named fiddlehead, curly Q, birdcage, star and stick-and-ball.