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sticks

noun as in backcountry

noun as in backwoods

noun as in boondocks

noun as in countryside

noun as in frontier

noun as in hinterland

noun as in outskirts

noun as in town

noun as in wilderness

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Example Sentences

Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.

They played together, made spears from sticks and sharp rocks, chased chickens together.

Sticks and stones may break my bones / but chains and whips excite me.

In the comic books, he sticks around at least until the group reaches the Alexandria Safe-Zone.

Saint Louis City police also spent $325,000 upgrading helmets, sticks and other civil disobedience equipment.

He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.

Regular pitched battles were fought with sticks and staves and stones.

The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.

The black sticks resembling lollipops are said to be compounds of rum, bullocks' blood and tobacco lees.

How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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