Sentence examples for stick to keep from inspiring English sources

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Arnott, not the puck, hurtled past Osgood and into the goal, where Parrish poked him with his stick to keep him from getting out.

Survivors also told prosecutors that Malek had operated one of the small dinghies that took them to the fishing boat and later commanded it, brandishing a stick to keep the passengers in line.

And suddenly I realized that if I used the stylistic vehicle of the absurd, with its comic subtleties, that would act like a balancing stick, to keep me in line".

He fended off a sheep with a stick to keep it from eating the goats' food.

My favourite pieces include a gold-plated quartz USB stick to keep all your secrets on and earrings that look like they've fallen out of an intergalactic toolbox.

You can load people up with work and use the big stick to keep them in fear, and get sixty or seventy hours of work out of them every week.

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Over the years, the city has tried both carrots and sticks to keep people away from hydrants.

Old women who examined corpses to ascertain the cause of death, Searchers carried long white sticks to keep the healthy at arm's length.

Tuffy, a Chihuahua-poodle mix sporting a red mohawk and satin tuxedo, arrived with Lourdes LeBron, who shared her own dog-decorating secret: "Bully sticks to keep them from chewing on everything else".

The family retreat into a twilight world where they grind flour in the coffee grinder to make bread, twist hay into sticks to keep the fire alight, and drink black tea once the cow's milk dries up.

They use sticks to keep the dogs away from them or kick them to get them away and this causes the dogs to become defensively aggressive".

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