Sentence examples for throwing stick from inspiring English sources
noun
A simple weapon, consisting of a stick that is thrown, often so that it spins in flight.
Boomerang, curved throwing stick used chiefly by the Aboriginals of Australia for hunting and warfare.
Thomas Mitchell first surveyed the area in 1836 and named it for an Aboriginal term meaning boomerang, throwing stick, or spear thrower.
Other items found nearby include a meter-long stick sharpened at each end, possibly a "throwing stick," also for killing animals, and shorter sticks with notches that might have been made to hold pieces of flint, which, if so, Thieme reports, would make them "the oldest composite tools yet discovered".
The "atlatal", a powerful throwing stick, launched a type of dart that was more flexible than a spear and had a main shaft 1.5m long.
Another weapon is a two pointed throwing stick for small game.
This is what makes throwing sticks in quadrangles such fun.
Wooden spears, waddies (clubs, or throwing sticks), and flaked-stone tools and weapons were produced.
Usually, with dogs, I do all the work, throwing sticks, etc.
Using tear gas and truncheons, the police repeatedly charged at the youths, who responded by throwing sticks and pavement stones and taunting the officers.
Data from studies involving experienced throwers typically relates to studies launching lighter objects such as throwing sticks which have different ballistic properties34.
In 1987, an 11-year-old boy was mauled to death by two polar bears at the Brooklyn zoo, after taunting them by throwing sticks and bottles.
