shillelagh
Example Sentences
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He celebrated the nearly perfect performance by putting his hands on a shillelagh.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2023
He celebrated the nearly perfect performance by putting his hands on a shillelagh.
From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2023
The walls — cream with green trim — are decorated with carefully selected paraphernalia, including a shillelagh, a traditional Irish cudgel-cum-walking-stick, that came from the brothers’ grandfather’s barn.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2022
Kenneth More, as an Irish general, hauls a bulldog named Winston onto the beach and waves his shillelagh.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2014
Back in the shillelagh days, there were no fancy polymer harnesses, no auto thrusters, and certainly no external monitors.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
