drumstick
Example Sentences
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Much like that final drumstick you probably shouldn’t have eaten, equities spent last week digesting their gains.
From Barron's • Dec. 7, 2025
You’ll be equal parts annoyed and delighted at its existence, while giving full kudos to the production design team that fashioned a Picasso-esque drumstick for Black to wave around.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025
The researchers found that in birds, the tibial joint surfaces have curved arcs, and the shortened fibula is able to roll within the bird's drumstick for about its length relative to the tibia.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024
Some 75.3 million years ago, a dinosaur swallowed the Cretaceous equivalent of a turkey drumstick.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023
At supper Fern ate bread and corn but she wouldn’t touch the gravy-coated drumstick Big Ma put on her plate.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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