Sentence examples for sticks that could from inspiring English sources

One member banged on a trash can lid while another knocked together sticks that could have been plucked from the nearby old-growth forest.

The sailors of the South Seas made the world's first navigating devices, which were crude combinations of notched sticks that could be used to plot the position of a boat between two fixed stars — the only visible points of reference.

Leaders in Britain, France and Germany are drafting a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry outlining parameters for new peace talks, and there is much discussion of carrots and sticks that could push the parties.

A squishy end was used for equipment Writer accepted a cookie from one boy & listened to another explain the rocks tied to driftwood sticks that could be used as tools or weapons--whichever was needed.

The health care workers union also contended that the two-pronged needles that the government bought for the vaccinations did not sufficiently protect against accidental needle sticks that could transmit the viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis.

A small protest was under way — we tried to read the signs and listen to the bullhorn speeches, but couldn't figure out what it was about — and some of the protesters were handing out leaflets while others tried to sell incense sticks that could be used in any of the nearby churches.

To Israelis, however, any American effort to restrain Israel only denies the Americans themselves the kind of stick that could compel Mr. Arafat to really move forward on negotiations.

The researchers also set up a large stick that could be poked through the tarp and waved around by a human outside the aviary pulling on a string; the moving stick posed a danger to the birds if they tried to extract the food.

"The FTC has by far the biggest stick that could be swung at Facebook, it is just a question about political will," Jason Kint, CEO of Digital Content Next, a New York-based association of online publishers, told VICE News.

But the prosecutors seem bent on using this case to push a novel and aggressive interpretation of the law that would arm the government with a much bigger stick to prosecute vaguely-defined national security leaks, a big stick that could threaten not just members of the military, but civilians too.

What he needed now, in order to engage in human congress, was emoticons on Popsicle sticks that he could wave around, lest everyone start to think that he was dead on the inside, too.