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"Cane" in a Sentence (27 examples)
In Singapore, one method of punishing criminals is to whip them, or hit them several times on the back with a cane.
A staff is used to help steady yourself when walking, much like a cane.
It crawls on all fours as a baby, then learns to walk on two legs, and finally needs a cane in old age.
This candy cane tastes like green apple.
I get along quite well now with my new cane.
A little old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.
How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
Tom can walk only if he has his cane.
I only use cane sugar.
My grandfather can't walk without his cane.
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Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]
The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
She was given mobility training as well — she uses a white cane to make her way independently to the hospital and asks for help to navigate traffic-ridden roads if she needs it. The effort is worth it.
The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
to cane chairs
In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats.
Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!
Mate, my legs cane!
Finally, section (2.5) reviews diachronic language studies on CanE, which is the area of focus in the present study.
The present study focusses on the 'other' North American variety of English, Canadian English (CanE) from a diachronic perspective.
Laurel J. Brinton University of British Columbia, Canada The dearth of real-time studies of the histories of transatlantic English varieties can be attributed to the lack of readily accessible, electronic corpora. However, for Canadian English (CanE) we now have the Bank of Canadian English (BCE), which consists of c. 2.5 million words from written and spoken sources extending from 1505 to the present.
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