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n. (plural of dead stick English) vb. (en-third-person singulardead stick)
Usage examples of "dead sticks".
We crashed blindly through dead sticks and a tangle of vines and bushes.
A string of red and black beads were looped and wound around a framework of dead sticks.
I wanted to skirt the deadfalls, gather the dead sticks from the ground, build a fire of cedar or pine, and smell the smoke.
There were rosebuds on the dead sticks, transparent as glass, visible only by the glimmer on the edge of each petal.
Fire, she said, as she examined the dead sticks of charcoal, and she laid out the precious scraps of seal meat on a rock at the mouth of the cave to dry in the wind and went back to gather an armful of driftwood.
Leaving the road they went into the deep resin-scented darkness of the trees, and gathered dead sticks and cones to make a fire.