"stick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then the dockyard had made a childish scene about the topgallant yard - a mere stick, most legitimately expended.
- But all the rest were poorly armed, wielding mere sticks and knives, and not dressed for the part at all.
- The upper parts of the holly are mere sticks, shorn of leaves, poking up into the air.
- He was too scrawny, a mere stick beside Dayrne or Leyn.
- His arms and legs are mere sticks.
- It is a mere stick.
- Five men circled the flyer, several brandishing weapons more sophisticated than mere sticks.
- I was dismayed to find that a mere stick of butter contains a whopping 800 calories, or more than one-third of my daily allotment.
- Some were not tipped at all, but were mere sharpened sticks blackened and hardened in fire.
- Didn't those idiots know this was no mere stick of wood?
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