Sentence examples for stick holding from inspiring English sources

To make textiles, yarn had to be spun; the earliest apparatus for this work consisted of a spindle and a distaff (a forked stick holding the unspun fibres).

Each time, the Teflon stick holding the thin film sample was saddled, and the direction of the stick was fixed where the magnetic moment was observed to be maximum.

He proceeded to take a white towel and place it on the end of a hockey stick holding it up in a mock surrender.

A penalty shot may also be awarded, at the referee's discretion, if a defensive player causes a foul to prevent a goal (by throwing his stick, holding, tripping, or by deliberately displacing the goal, or a defensive player intentionally falls and covers a ball in his own team's crease).

My friend assisted me as he lit a rig with a crème brûlée torch until the metal part was red-hot, poking it with a stick holding a tiny bit of THC wax as I inhaled a grassy-tasting, clean smoke.

Snip off the wick to a suitable height and remove the stick holding it.

I was beyond burned out: I was scorched, like a marshmallow on a stick held too close to the fire.

When I finally met him, I was stunned: he was a quadriplegic and had been typing with a stick held in his lips.

Children were asked to cut out pictures of their favorite fictional characters, stick them on the end of a long stick, hold them out at varying distances and take pictures.

A characteristic rhythmic unit in ensembles across central Africa is the double bell two open bells made of iron that are joined so they can be held in the left hand and struck with a stick held in the right.

Thongs are also stretched across the open side of the drum to form a handle; the singer usually holds the drum in his left hand and strikes the head with a stick held in his right hand.