cane
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She had said in a New York Times interview that she could not walk without a cane and used a wheelchair during filming of the Netflix series Dead To Me.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The memorial installed at the college, near Alton, Hampshire, depicts two pupils, one with a sling and and another holding a cane, embracing each other.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
They also showed her a photo of a portrait of Beata’s second-eldest son, Jacobus Johannes Christoffel, nicknamed Cootje, wearing a green jacket and holding a cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
That’s in part because Crouch is 75, and a bicycle accident has him using a cane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The admiral showed no sign of such misgivings; he marched back and forth and twirled his cane with glee.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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This necessitates using canes, trekking poles and the occasional walker as well as taking a wheelchair to the airport gate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Elderly and propping himself up with canes, he said this conflict was of a different magnitude.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Once able-bodied men, they walk with canes, one step at a time.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
The team dressed in Santa hats and reindeer antlers, throwing the slowly gyrating microphone to each other to speak while candy canes floated around their heads.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
The tummy medicine tasted like liquid candy canes without sugar, but it worked.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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Italy was caned by New Zealand 96-17 last week in Lyon but the Azzurri are usually thrashed by the All Blacks.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
"They went to Aston Villa, got caned and never recovered," said BBC Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore of a 4-0 hammering at Villa Park in March.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023
Before drafting his design, Mr. Jouin visited the Richelieu and saw a mix of seating in various rooms, including rows of high-backed caned chairs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
I ended up selling our beloved caned bentwood chairs because they just weren't comfortable to sit in for a long time.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
It was said by the envious that Broadbent was the midnight poacher on whom Mr. Washington set his dogs, and whom he caned by the river-side at Mount Vernon.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
Brooks decided to resign as a matter of honor, although he asserted that the House had no right to punish him since the caning had been a personal matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
“Miracle on 34th Street” probably was the first movie to give the commercialism of the holidays a stiff caning as we watch mega-department stores Gimbel’s and Macy’s try to outdo each other in Christmas sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
"We were caning it," bassist Peter Hook announces jocularly as he recalls the frenzied recording session for the England team's official World Cup anthem.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2020
If Sietsema gave a brutal caning to a new spot you’d probably look askance if you found out that he owned a place across the street.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018
The next one had on it: Why has south eastern Alaska so many caning factories?
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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