He took the sucker and held it without putting it into his mouth, still troubled by the unsteadiness of the bent stick.

Some historians trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball.

The oldest of the crones, a bent and shriveled stick of a woman with a single black eye, raised her arms on high.

Nok Sitthivej, a white-haired 72-year-old who uses a bent stick as a cane, told me she was hit by the wave while running to higher ground alongside her husband.

The returning boomerang has specialized components that make it behave a little differently than an ordinary bent stick.

The gifts - a heavy blanket, a small chair shaped of bent sticks, and a wood - framed mirror - surprised and confused Elbryan.

They were still talking, into the little bent sticks of their microphones.

Playing equipment is supposed to consist of a bent stick, though there are many variations on the design.

Primitive humans noticed this, and so they started specifically seeking out bent sticks when they wanted to throw a club at their target.

Once the bow was completed, the squatting shepherd held the string between his thumbs and index fingers and let the bent stick hang beneath.