the sticks
Example Sentences
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Long Germany's number two behind World Cup winner Manuel Neuer, Ter Stegen took over between the sticks after the former's retirement in 2024, but has suffered a series of injury setbacks.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
The equipment managers may have the most difficult job in the Olympic hockey tournament since they must prepare and maintain the sticks, skates, gloves and uniforms for 25 players, some of whom they’ve never met.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
“You had the carrots first, and then the sticks were less painful,” said Greg Melich, equity analyst at Evercore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026
There were moments of promise, with Dom Young a fingernail from scoring in the corner from a Herbie Farnworth grubber kick and Morgan Knowles knocking on before grounding the ball under the sticks.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025
First he tore the pages from the book of poems and crumpled each poem into a ball or a paper twist, which he pushed into the sticks of the shack's wall at ground level.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
