Sentence examples for sticks in order from inspiring English sources

Waiters in red jackets and bow ties carry message sticks in order to alert diners to phone calls.

That's almost a million diners willing to wait many years for the privilege of travelling to the sticks in order to drop four hundred dollars a head.

This he contrasts with our modern rootless condition, in which we simply pick up sticks in order to chase the almighty pound, inducing a relationship with place that has all the attributes of "a loveless marriage".

We may want to consider ways to toughen up our talking points and enhance the use -- or perception of likely use -- of other real "sticks" in order to achieve market opening, job-creating objectives.

As one of the country's most dynamic and explosive talents, Buttler could have stuck it out as a batsman but instead decided to up sticks in order to remain behind the stumps.

I wanted to be enclosed and included within that thing of which these people were a part". This he contrasts with our modern rootless condition, in which we simply pick up sticks in order to chase the almighty pound, inducing a relationship with place that has all the attributes of "a loveless marriage".

What do you have to do with the Force Stick in order to be able to feel the impulse?

Apparently, with Vauxhalls, you have to pull up a little lever on the gear stick in order to get into reverse.

These are people who have taken hold of the wrong end of the stick in order to beat the country with it.

A data controller employee downloaded the data on to a personal memory stick in order to do some work at home.

First, the government had to offer a carrot as well as waving the big stick in order to prevent a re-run of the fuel-tax protests that brought Britain to a halt in September.