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How to use staves in a sentence

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In the eighteenth century, wooden barrels were assembled out of individual staves and hoops, with no two barrels being identical.
Here there were no men training, only a few targets and a pile of wooden staves in the corner.
One corner of the room contains tall curving birch staves that are evocative of a forest.
Cutting staves led to the purchase of a kiln, which, in turn, opened up additional markets.
The sun louvers were made of salvaged barrel staves from a nearby pickle factory.
Experiments with brandy as well as wine, however, demonstrate the superiority of air-dried over kiln-dried wood for barrel staves.
For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
Vigilante groups dressed in robes and turbans, armed with staves and swords and mounted on motorbikes, patrol the city to enforce the curfew.
It was carried out with a stocking filled with sand or sometimes wooden staves from a cask.
To illustrate this, Liebig imagined a barrel crafted out of staves of mismatched lengths.
A typical graph contains one or more grand staves, or piano staves, so one will likely begin with a piano template.
Jonathan trained his crossbow on the back door while Kyli and Ben stood on either side of the door with their staves raised.
Carving is also applied to the production of staves of traditional office, drums, dolls, and game boards.
Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents.
On the roadway, the supporters were shouting at the crowd to move back, staves were being swung, a few punches thrown.
This staves off moral panic and encourages postmodernist academics to write papers in learned journals.
The display brings together alms basins, processional crosses and staves as well as plate for the celebration of communion.
Unlike Belloc's old staff, the new staves were ornately carved with runes and ancient arcane symbols.
Each town has a blacksmith, a dealer in wands and staves, and a seller of potions.
Gabe stalked over to the weapons rack and pulled down two wooden staves, in a bad temper because his preferred sword hadn't been chosen.
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At this, half a score reached him their staves, and he took the stoutest and heaviest of them all.
With brooms and staves they ran to meet it far from their dwellings, beating it with fury.
Then with sticks and staves they fell upon the rearguard and cudgelled them.
This is done with chicken wire, or with willows or old staves where they can be had.
But there was a cooper's shop in town, and James was already very handy with a drawshave in getting out staves.
Heads cracked beneath the fall of staves, and red blood spurted from a knife thrust or the cut of a tulwar.
The deputies travelled on foot, with their piked staves in their hands, like pilgrims bound for some place of devotion.
Think of the snuffers and spoons and ouches, and bolts and rings and staves, all of pure gold.
Shouldst thou fail, it will be a whacking with staves for thine.
Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
Left James river for Jamaica on June 25, with 4000 staves, 487 bbl.
There was a sound of rude voices, and a clashing of swords and staves.
The building had once been a factory for the making of barrel staves but was now vacant.
Each pair of shrouds should be served below the futtock staves.
The staves accordingly are seen flying through the air in all directions.
The only tools they used were staves, which they made before starting.
Only wish I had a couple of tallow staves instead of this wooden spoon.
These were in metal, and were raised at the ends of spears or staves.
The door was made of thoroughly rotten cask staves, which left large apertures for the passage of his hawklike gaze.
A party of constables with their staves followed the sheriff, preceding Marmaduke and four plain, grave-looking yeomen, who were his associates on the bench.
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